I Quotes
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“It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.”
Source: Commitment
“It is always easier to die, simply to give up, to surrender and let the pain die with you. To fight is to keep pain alive, even to intensify it. And this requires courage for which i had only admiration.”
“it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.”
Source: My Days
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
“It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another’s value. It is easier to define yourself as ‘not that,’ rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
“It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.”
Source: A Civil Campaign
“It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.”
Source: Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
“it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.”
Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated
“It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.”
Source: A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity
“It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.”
“It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.”
“It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.”
“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.”
Source: Sallust
“It is always easy to create an ordinary city; what is difficult is to create an extraordinary one, peaceful and restful one, smart and tidy, artful and cultivated one, in short, a livable one! And Zurich is such a city!”
“It is always easy to criticize, as Bernie Ecclestone is somebody with extreme opinions.”
“It is always easy to flow with the river and to run with the wind! But glory and honour are often not found in easy things!”
“It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.”
Source: Death Comes to Pemberley: Enhanced Edition
“It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them!”
“It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“It is always easy to wake up a person who is fast asleep, but never those people who pretend to be deep in sleep.”
“It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.”
“It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.”
Source: The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge
“It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.”
“It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.”
Source: Sophocles
“It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights.”
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“It is always, first Self, then everything else.”
Source: Principia Humanitas
“It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.”
Source: Lectures Vol. 4
“It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity”
Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus
“It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
“It is always good to bear in mind that mastery of the virtue of sacrifice is mastery of true leadership and greatness. It is the power behind greatness.”
Source: 8 Types of Leaders: Every Leader Should Know
“It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.”
“It is always good to have friends. Friends may be considered as part of the family because you have created and unbreakable bond. But, sometimes we outgrow certain people. We no longer have the same interests or outlook on life. That is when you realize that the friendship has to be maintained from a distance. Therefore, you create a new avenue in your life by removing toxic people who defeat your purpose.”
“It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.”
Source: The Personal Edition of George Eliot's Works
“It is always good to make others think, even when they do not want to.”
“It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.”
Source: Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection
“It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.”
Source: The Janet Frame reader
“It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.”
Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel
“It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.”
“It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.”
Source: Letters
“It is always healthy to be honest.”
“It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.”
“It is always important to guard with jealous attention the origin of your existence .Don't be shy to Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel with distractive intentions.Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. And that is why u must always be ready for a war .”
“It is always important to have something yet to do in life.”
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”
“It is always important to look beyond a pleasant visage.”
Source: Goldenhand
“It is always impossible until it is done.”
“It is always improper to intentionally offend anyone; and if someone is offended by your actions or words, they are not necessarily right.”