Easy Quotes - Page 11

• Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hero, Slave, Idle

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.163

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• There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Reading, Profound, Detectives

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

  Joseph Addison

  Gentleman, Quality, World

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.173

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• A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Tasks, Discrimination

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.250, tredition

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• To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

  John Muir

  Wild Beauty, Way, Chance

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.722, Library of America

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• You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Self, Female

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

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• I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

  Nancy Reagan

  Art, Writing, Phones

  Nancy Reagan (2001). “I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan”, p.1, Random House

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• It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.

  Matt Dillon

  Men, Judging, Trying

  "The Development of an Actor". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 12, 1995.

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• Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Retirement, Prayer, Blessed

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

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• Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Falling In Love, Simple, Men

  Bruce Springsteen (2011). “Bruce Springsteen - Sheet Music Anthology: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Sheet Music Songbook Collection”, p.183, Alfred Music

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• The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Impossible, Behavior, Precision

  "Toward Definition of Mind" edited by Jordan Ma Scher, Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, (p. 92), 1962.

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• A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

  Larry Wall

  Fall, Should, Categories

  Usenet article, 1997.

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• Train hard, fight easy.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Fighting, Train Hard, Train

  "The Art of Victory" by Alexander Suvorov, New York, 1965.

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• The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Fire, Omnipotence, Atoms

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 273, 1895.

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• Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

  Jackson Browne

  Crazy, Sound, Take It Easy

  Song: Take It Easy, Album: For Everyman, 1973

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• I was in the war. I know how to kill. I was over there. I know how to do it. I've done it before. It's no big deal. You just make an adjustment. You convince yourself it's all right. That's all. It's easy. You just slaughter them.

  Sam Shepard

  War, Done, Murder

  Sam Shepard (1976). “Curse of the Starving Class: A Play in Three Acts”, p.38, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life.

  Fred Rogers

  Song, Children, Father

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.45, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.

  L. P. Jacks

  Knowing, Way, Found

  "The Confession of an Octogenaria". Book by LP Jacks, p. 99, 1942.

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• It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.

  Matt Damon

  Children, Kids, Greatness

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• Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.

  Dave Eggers

  Pain, Eye, Boys

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.116, Vintage

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• Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mother, Home, Son

  "Sexy As Sin: Christina Aguilera Reveals Why She Finally Feels Sexy In Her Own Skin". Interview with Laura Schreffler, hauteliving.com. March 28, 2014.

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• Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Lying, Hero, Men

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Speak, Truth Is, Pleasant

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.37, Penguin

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• It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

  Adrienne Barbeau

  Singing, Hitting, Upside Down

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Canada has become trouble recently ... It's always the worst Americans who go there ... We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They're the only good parts of Canada.

  Ann Coulter

  Taken, Cowboy, Want

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