Easy Quotes - Page 36

• It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.

  Virgil

  Air, Steps, Hell

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• An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Self, Denying God

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• Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

  Michael Moore

  Mother, Gratitude, Army

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• It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank. Let the others fade away. And your confidence, that feeling of being on top of the world, will zoom up-ward. You take a big step forward toward conquering your fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.

  David J. Schwartz

  Happiness, Memories, Self

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• Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you--a state of conscious alertness.

  James Redfield

  Prayer, Moving, Thinking

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• Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.

  Gary Johnson

  Grace, Cards, Pay

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• Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

  Gary Johnson

  Immigration, Good Things, Should

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• Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Space, Soul, Lust

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• If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, Thinking, Jokes

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• It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Men, Rulers

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

  Jessamyn West

  Solitude, Born, Ruthless

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Luxury, Necessary Use

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1870). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”

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• Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.

  Virgil

  Night, Doors, Political

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• Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

  Earl Wilson

  Inspirational, Money, Toothpaste

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• Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

  Ben Nelson

  Fire, Water, Decision

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• Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

  Nicholas Evans

  Knowing, Loud, Hard

  "Fictional character: Tom Booker". "The Horse Whisperer", www.imdb.com. May 15, 1998.

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• There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.

  Elizabeth George

  Easy Answers, Answers

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• I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

  Dean Young

  Block, Believe, Writing

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• Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.

  John Norman

  Girl, Should, Masters

  John Norman (2011). “Outlaw of Gor: Gor”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

  Pat Williams

  Basketball, Nba, Coaching

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• It’s easy to watch someone else’s life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.

  Patrick Jones

  Watches, Crash, Harder

  Patrick Jones (2006). “Things Change”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Lying, Whirlwind, Hard

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Književna reč, Beograd, "A Lie", (p. 65), 1999.

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• The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.

  Julian Huxley

  Children, Long, Relief

  Julian Huxley (1944). “Man in the Modern World”

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• Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

  John Newton

  God, Attitude, Self

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