I Quotes
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“It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.”
Source: Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women
“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”
“It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.”
Source: Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God
“It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.”
Source: Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here
“It is far easier to blindly judge than to open our hearts to others and see their truth.”
Source: Qui-Gon
“It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.”
“It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later.”
Source: Java Concurrency in Practice
“It is far easier to explain things through prohibition and fear.”
Source: The Most Precious Gift: A myth of gods and humans
“It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.”
“It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.”
“It is far easier to get divorced from somebody you've been married to for 10 years and have three children by than to fire somebody that's worked for you for one year.”
“It is far easier to hate than to educate oneself. Hate is a lazy-ass slob, wallowing in self-righteousness and fed by self-doubt and fear. Firing slings and arrows at difference, reason and knowledge, swelling with intolerance, spite, venom, and rage.”
“It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“It is far easier to make a good first impression than to change a bad one.”
Source: The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like
“It is far easier to raise an army from childhood than to make one submit after years of serving another”
“It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.”
Source: The Iron Heel
“It is far easier to travel than to write about it.”
Source: LIVINGSTONES'S TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SO UTH AFRICA
“It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.”
Source: The essential Colin Wilson
“It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.”
“It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple.”
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
Source: Selected essays
“It is far kinder and smarter to show someone a better path in life than to darkly follow down their's with the self-righteous belief that you do so with the purer intentions of justly punishing them for their previous actions, making you hypocritically the same and thus influencing further negative repercussions.”
“It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.”
Source: Modern Painters
“It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.”
“It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.”
Source: Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College
“It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.”
“It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.”
“It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.”
“It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.”
“It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
“It is far more important to know myself and take care of myself than it is to look good to others.”
Source: AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself
“It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.”
“It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.”
“It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.”
“It is far more painful to awake from a beautiful slumber and – in that brief period when the continuity of life is still lost to you – to reach across the bed for a hand that is not there.”
Source: Conversations with Spirits
“It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.”
“It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“It is far more than a game, this cricket.”
“It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails a difficult and prolonged readjustment. the reflexive mechanism of the mind -or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious - is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind is ever after held in a fixed now moment out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze upon the Unknown”
“It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“It is far stronger to acknowledge an issue, accept it and attempt to restore it than it is to bear the pain, dismiss what it calls for and carry on. Moving on in this way is not being strong or positive; it is denial. Being positive is not plastering a smile over a hard experience; being positive is recognising this experience for its negative nature and acting upon it to make it transformative.”
Source: Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance
“It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.”
“It is far too easy to become complacent with avoidance of failure, that we deprive ourselves of valuable growth channels.”
“It is far too easy to fall into a cycle of complacency.”
“It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.”
Source: Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition
“It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.”
“It is far wiser to speak to someone’s humanity than to criticize their behaviors.”
“It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order.”
Source: Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines