Easy Quotes

"There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history"

"No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England"

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy"

Jim Dale, Musician

"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult"

Tom Wilkinson, Actor

"Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!"

Susan Powter, Celebrity

"I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy"

John Astin, Actor

"It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself"

Rainer W. Fassbinder

"And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood"

Janet Frame, Novelist

"You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled"

Martin Short, Actor

"In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy"

John Malkovich, Actor

"God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of"

Faye Dunaway, Actress

"Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different"

Alan Vega, Musician

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