Easy Quotes

"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

"Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

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

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"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

"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult"

George Eliot, Author

"Easy reading is damn hard writing"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

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

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do"

Sting, Musician

"You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

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

Mike Ditka, Coach

"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"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

"To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

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

Juvenal, Poet

"I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"In diagnosis think of the easy first"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"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

"As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop"

Michelangelo, Artist

"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

"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning"

Susan Sontag, Author

"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity"

John Le Carre, Author

"It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad"

Charles Eames, Designer

"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things"

Stendhal, Writer

"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it"

Donatella Versace, Designer

"That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well"

Will Arnett, Actor

"I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park"

Willie Mays, Athlete

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