Easy Quotes - Page 13

• As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Example, Form, Liberation

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• It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

  Peter Greenaway

  Shut Up, Miserable

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.

  Dwight Howard

  Years, Nba, Different

  Interview with Victor Kelly, January 26, 2005.

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• It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

  Barbara Hepworth

  People, Sculpture, Body

  Interview in The Studio, 1962.

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• Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

  David Icke

  People, Different, Today

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.

  Michael Lewis

  Brother, Jobs, Book

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you're trying to turn me into something else, it's easy to see I'm not down with that.

  Avril Lavigne

  Trying, Turn Me, Turns

  "Song: 'Nobody's Fool'". 2002.

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• Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.

  Jack LaLanne

  Extra Time, Needs, Use

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• I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Real, Kids, Love Is

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• Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?

  Sun Myung Moon

  Philosophy, Hardship, Worst

  "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (1-6. Suffering, Offering, and Obedience), 1980.

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• Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground. There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free

  Conor Oberst

  Worry, Heaven, Flippant

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• It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.

  Bill Parcells

  Quarterback, Backup, Easy Things

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• Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Government, Games

  Sarah Palin's speech as Running Mate of John McCain in Dayton, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com.

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• It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

  Carroll Quigley

  Tears, Events, Factors

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Writing, Promise, Cash

  Robert Charles Wilson (2004). “Blind Lake”, p.114, Macmillan

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• It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Real, Prohibition, Torah

  Jewish Chronicle (p. 22), October 11, 2013.

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• It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Death, Children, Trying

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.

  Daniel J. Solove

  Believe, Evolution, Folks

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• Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Anxiety, Bears, Circumstances

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• I'll be true, I'll be useful...I'll be cavalier...I'll be yours my dear.and I'll belong to you...if you'll just let me through.this is easy as lovers go,so don't complicate it by hesitating.and this is wonderful as loving goes,this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?

  Chris Carrabba

  Waiting, Tailors, Lovers

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• The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.

  Bob Proctor

  Running, New Year, Years

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 31, 2011

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• The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to improve the quality of our lives. However, nothing improves by accident, it requires conscious attention. When you are being bombarded by negatives, improvement, growth and success are easy to forget.

  Bob Proctor

  Bombarded By, Growth, Desire

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 24, 2012

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• Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Perseverance, Character, Mean

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.186

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• The traditional American husband and father had the responsibilities-and the privileges-of playing the role of primary provider. Sharing that role is not easy. To yield exclusive access to the role is to surrender some of the potential for fulfilling the hero fantasy-a fantasy that appeals to us all. The loss is far from trivial.

  Faye J Crosby

  Husband, Father, Hero

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• People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

  Erik Naggum

  Past, People, Meaning Of Life

  "Knowledge and Information". naggum.no. February 6, 1996.

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