Easy Quotes - Page 5

• Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Les Mis, Habit

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

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• To be dull is easy,
  to be active requires
  tremendous work.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Dull, Active

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• It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

  Bruce Lee

  Lying, Cocky, Honestly

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• I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked on it for many years. But I like to think that I sound like Dewey Redman

  Dewey Redman

  Thinking, Years, Sound

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• Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

  Henry Rollins

  Creating, Care, Lasts

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• I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.

  Rupert Grint

  People, Serious, Looking Forward

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• As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

  Angela Kinsey

  Mom, Keys, Routine

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• Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Lying, Kids

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• Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Giving, World

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.61, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

  Greg Kinnear

  Interesting, Stories, Feels

  "TIFF 2012: Greg Kinnear and Josh Boone Talk WRITERS, Autobiographical Material, and Stephen King Cameo". Group interview, collider.com. September 17, 2012.

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• New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

  Ford Madox Ford

  New York, Crucible, Enough

  Ford Madox Ford (1927). “New York Essays”

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• The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Psychics, Ideas, People

  "Interview: Jayne Ann Krentz, author of ‘Copper Beach’". Interview with Joyce Lamb, Pamela Clare, tpepost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Reading, Character, Men

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• It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

  Wayne Wonder

  Song, Experience, Happens

  "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. September 5.

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• I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Heart, Mind, Bears

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• This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

  Robert Teeter

  Leadership, Thinking, Perception

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• I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Love, Tasks, Generations

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• One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

  Russell Banks

  Motivation, Real, Book

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• It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Mistake, Past, Men

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• History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Two, History, Giving

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• We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Giving, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2593, Manonmani Publishers

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• From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

  Carl Safina

  Lucky Day, Oil, Risk

  "Deepwater Horizon, One Year Later: A Conversation With Carl Safina". Interview with Douglas Gorney, www.theatlantic.com. April 20, 2011.

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• It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

  Dan Quisenberry

  Sports, Jobs, Character

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• It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Giving, Levels

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• Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Shoes, Soul, Steel

  Scott Westerfeld (2007). “The Last Days”, p.85, Penguin

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