I Quotes
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“It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable.”
Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
“It is easy to see how quickly expectations become layered, competitive and conflicting. This is how the shame web works. We have very few realistic options that allow us to meet any of these expectations. Most of the options that we do have feel like a "double bind." When Marilyn Frye describes a double bind as "a situation in which options are very limited and all of them expose us to penalty, censure or deprivation.”
“It is easy to see how the myths and legends which built up around the Goddess Bride became entwined with Christian doctrine, and there is one source which tells of St Brigid’s ale harvest being so abundant that enough ale was made to serve seventeen churches!”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“It is easy to see, however,―as has been indicated more than once by anarchist writers, and lately by the French professor, V. Basch, in an interesting work, Anarchist Individualism: Max Stirner (1904, in French)―that this sort of individualism, aiming as it does at the "full development," not of all members of society, but of those only who would be considered as the most gifted ones, without caring for the right of full development for all―is merely a disguised return towards the now-existing education-monopoly of the few. It simply means a "right to their full development" for the privileged minorities. But, as such monopolies cannot be maintained otherwise than under the protection of a monopolist legislation and an organized coercion by the State, the claims of these individualists necessarily end in a return to the state idea and to that same coercion which they so fiercely attack themselves. Their position is thus the same as that of Spencer, and of all so-called "Manchester school" of economists, who also begin by a severe criticism of the State and end in its full recognition in order to maintain the property monopolies, of which the State is the necessary stronghold.”
Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.”
Source: Major Works
“It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.”
Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain
“It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.”
Source: Selected Writings of Thomas Paine
“It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.”
Source: Democracy in America
“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.”
Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem
“It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.”
“It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.”
“It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together–my future, my past, the whole of my life–and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!”
Source: The Secret History
“It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.”
“It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?”
“It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.”
“It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.”
“It is easy to sit and it is easy not to think; you do the opposite: You walk and think!”
“It is easy to sit down in the forest to meditate on peace but it is not too east to hunt down the wild animals in the city for peace”
“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”
“It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.”
“It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.”
“It is easy to speak, but not very easy when you can't speak easily.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“It is easy to speak of bravery, but it is difficult to live the words.”
“It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is those people who seem most difficult, who may even seem hostile, that need your radiation of love most. Their very hostility is but their soul's cry for loving recognition. When you generate sufficient love to them, the discord will fade away.”
“It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.”
Source: Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...
“it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.”
Source: Lady Audley's Secret
“It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.”
“It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.”
“It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.”
Source: HER LIFE AND WORK
“It is easy to suffer for a cause or for a mission; this ennobles the heart of the person suffering. But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky for the first time, that is to say: not merely see it, but look at it and experience it and for the first time have a sense that we live in the center of a physical poetry, a geography that would be intolerable except for the non-geography that exists there - few people realize that they are looking at the world of their own thoughts and the world of their own feelings.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.”
Source: Way of Life and Death
“It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.”
Source: A Passage to India
“It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?”
“It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.”
“It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.”
“It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take
great pictures.”
“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”
“It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.”
“It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.”
Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“It is easy to tell the difference between Jews and Gentiles. After the show, all the gentiles are saying 'Have a drink? Want a drink? Let's have a drink!' While all the Jews are saying 'Have you eaten yet? Want a piece of cake? Let's have some cake!”
“It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.”
“It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“It is easy to tie someone with love, but it takes a lifetime to untie the knot of love.”
“It is easy to turn a scooter, but not a train with 40 bogeys. This is such a big country, changes are constant and widespread.”
“It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .”
Source: Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year
“It is easy to underestimate how much there is a growing awareness that there is a deep sexism in politics, there is a deep sexism in the workplace generally in America and Donald Trump has come to signify that and Hillary Clinton has come to signify the women that have to work hard, prepare more, show up earlier and go home later, work twice as hard to get the same results as men do in the same game.”
“It is easy to underrate how long it takes to implement a new idea. Researchers estimate that it takes 30 years for a groundbreaking development to progress from initial idea to a commercially viable product.
Middle management often extols the value of short-term strategies that react to market circumstances. Kodak used short-term strategies to keep its analogue photography business going. But the expression 'short-term strategy' is in fact an oxymoron, because trying to reach short-term goals is not strategic by definition.”
Source: The Business Model Navigator: 55 Models That Will Revolutionise Your Business
“It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.”
Source: The Showings of Divine Love