Easy Quotes

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get"

Confucius, Philosopher

"There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent"

Ovid, Poet

"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy"

George Foreman, Athlete

"Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"From politics, it was an easy step to silence"

Jane Austen, Writer

"The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub"

Virgil, Writer

"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult"

George Eliot, Author

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"We have confused the free with the free and easy"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"Easy reading is damn hard writing"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty"

Juvenal, Poet

"And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers"

John Hutton, Educator

"It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you"

Tyler Perry, Actor

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