I Quotes
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“It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education
“It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.”
“It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.”
Source: Disciples of Fortune
“It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.”
Source: The spectator
“It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest part of a letter of the law to become invalid. -Luke 16:17”
“It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has failed me lots of times.”
“It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.”
“It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.”
Source: Killosophy
“It is easier for people to accept slavery if they realize that they actually have paid for it. - On Slavery.”
Source: To Life from the Shadows: Conversations with the Light
“It is easier for people to overlook their differences once they get to know someone.”
“It is easier for small children to obey rules than making choices for themselves. In fact this doesn’t change when one grows up.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“It is easier for stars to shine in darkness; that is why dark times come into your life.”
“It is easier for the leaders to reject the prophecy and the prophet, particularly if there are some unresolved character issues in the life of the prophet. It provides a legitimate reason to reject the word in the eyes of the people, though not necessarily in the eyes of the Lord. Prophecy has a way of testing our true motives.”
Source: Developing Your Prophetic Gifting
“It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.”
“It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.”
“It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”
Source: Speak
“It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.”
“It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men”
Source: The Image of the City and Other Essays
“It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now.”
“It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.”
“It is easier to act your way into a better feeling than to feel your way into a better way of acting. When certain feelings hinder you, look for other feelings to feel. Supplant your fear with a greater motivation. The more frequently we feel and do not act, the less often we will feel. Act genially in the face of rancor; you may be the only angel in that person’s life. What you practice projecting you are projecting and you become.”
Source: Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
“It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.”
“It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living forces of our heart. It is easier to define its peculiarities and its details than to draw out of it its emotion, its thought.”
“It is easier to apologize than to get permission.”
Source: Voice of America Interviews with Eight American Women of Achievement
“It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.”
“It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.”
Source: Tales of Nevèrÿon
“It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.”
Source: The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull
“It is easier to avoid great matrimonial catastrophes than trivial everyday miseries.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“It is easier to avoid the effects of others' negativity when we question if an action or attitude is appropriately directed at us. If it isn't, we can choose to sidestep it and let it pass.”
“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.”
“It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else’s mind and obey someone else’s command when you are a person of victim mentality”
“It is easier to be gay at this very moment than it was five minutes ago. It is just constantly getting better, and it's wonderful.”
“It is easier to be grateful for the things we have than to the people who have helped us get them.”
“It is easier to be hated
than to face not being loved
Easier to be angry
than accept sadness”
Source: Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
“It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“It is easier to be vile together than to be virtuous alone.”
Source: Anant
“It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.”
“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
“It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.”
“It is easier to begin well than to finish well.”
“It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.”
“It is easier to ‘bend’ children than to mend adults.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“It is easier to blame the politicians and civil servants than to take responsibility for the issues of one's own society. Society is us, so its issues are our responsibility.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“It is easier to blame the politicians and civil servants than to take responsibility for the issues of one's own society. Society is us, so its issues are our responsibility - they are the responsibility of each one of us, from the scientist to the civil servant, from the janitor to the teacher, from the preacher to the sex-worker.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.”
“It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.”
“It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.”
“It is easier to build Rome in a day than to rebuild broken Trust in years.”