Easy Quotes
As quoted in Crosstown Traffic (1989) by Charles Shaar Murray
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Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...
John Lennon— "Imagine" (1971)
The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.
nelson mandela
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom— 1987 The Closing of the American Mind, preface.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
thomas jefferson— Letter to Elbridge Gerry (13 May 1797).
In societies with fewer opportunities for amusement, it was also easier to tell a mere wish from a real desire. If, in order to hear some music, a man has to wait for six months and then walk twenty miles, it is easy to tell whether the words, "I should like to hear some music," mean what they appear to mean, or merely, "At this moment I should like to forget myself." When all he has to do is press a switch, it is more difficult. He may easily come to believe that wishes can come true.
wystan hugh auden— Interlude: West's Disease", p. 245
It is not easy to remain motivated in the face of widespread apathy and self-indulgence.
ratu joni madraiwiwi— Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.
wolfgang amadeus mozart— Spoken in Prague, 1787, to conductor Kucharz, who led the rehearsals for Don Giovanni, from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
theodore roosevelt— The Higher Life of American Cities in The Outlook (p. 1083 - 1085) from 21 December 1895
Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last.
Francis Bacon— 1625 Essays, no.43,'Of Beauty'.
And seeing the snail, which everywhere doth roam, Carrying his own house still, still is at home, Follow (for he is easy paced) this snail, Be thine own palace, or the world's thy gaol.
john donne— 1597-8 'To Sir Henry Wotton'.
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
— 1923 A Tract on Monetary Reform.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
benjamin banneker— This appeared in Banneker's Almanac in 1794, and is commonly attributed to him, but originates earlier in "Reflections on different Subjects of Morality, by Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland, Duke of Lorrain and Bar" in The Universal Magazine (1765), p. 119
It is not easy to conceive the difficulties we have had.
henry knox— Knox to George Washington on the difficulties of taking Cannon to Boston.-McCullough pg 83
The atrocities for which [members of the Derg regime] are now collectively indicted can tempt the unwary into nostalgia for Haile Selassie. It is easy to forget that the emperor used to authorise public hangings, that his opponents were routinely tortured, that courtiers who fell from grace were not only jailed but frequently held in chains as well, and that concepts of justice, liberty and democracy were effectively outlawed from public debate.
selassie, haile i, of ethiopia— Jonathan Dimbleby in Feeding on Ethiopia's Famine in The Independent, 8 December 1998
“These people have successfully incorporated a belief in your martial prowess into their religion; how can you deny them?” “Believe me, it would be easy.”
iain banks— Chapter Twelve (p. 390)
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
bill gates— p. 265 in hardcover edition, corrected in paperback
Yugoslavia is, along with Iran, the only nation which, under difficult circumstances... stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unify the ethnic groups, to modernize a nation like Yugoslavia, and one must recognise that marshal Tito has fulfilled an extraordinary task. God willing, his successors will show themselves to be just as capable.
josip broz tito— Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Réponse à l'Histoire (Albin Michel, 1979), p. 190.
The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.
william cowper— William Cowper, Table Talk, line 237.
I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.
l. p. jacks— The Confession of an Octogenarian (1942), p. 99
We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.
meg white— Jarmusch, Jim (2003). "The White Stripes: getting to know the most interesting band in music today" FindArticles.com (accessed June 6, 2006)
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
Aristotle— Book VIII, Part V
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks ... on screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. It isn't easy to do in the theater, but it's twice as hard in film.
Arthur Miller— On filming a television production of Death of a Salesman, as quoted in The New York Times (15 September 1985)
It was as easy as keying in a door code. Somehow he felt that arming fusion bombs to detonate around him should have been more difficult.
— Chapter 50 (p. 504) (Leviathan Wakes (2011))
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
Núria Añó— In the short story 2066. Beginning the age of correction
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
— As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 49.
Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.
ludwig von mises— Ludwig von Mises, A Critique of Interventionism, (1929) p. 163
That would be the easy way out, Megatron. You don't deserve it.
— Who: Optimus Prime
— Source: Transformers Animated (2007-2009)
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