I Quotes
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“It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.”
“It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.”
Source: Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931
“It is much easier not to struggle, to give up and take the path of the living dead. But if we want to live, we must struggle.”
Source: Between Torture and Resistance
“It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.”
Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays
“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.”
Source: Number the Stars
“It is much easier to be conforming than rational.”
“It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.”
“It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.”
“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
“It is much easier to begin than to end.”
“It is much easier to believe lies than the truth."
"Why?" asked Janna.
"Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fact that she's a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were stabbed in the back than that they lost a fair fight. And anyone would rather blame someone else for his misfortunes. The truth is hard. Don't fool with it unless you realize that.”
Source: The Borrowed House
“It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.”
“It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.”
Source: Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others
“It is much easier to develop a man's qualities than to eliminate their flaws.”
“It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers
“It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“It is much easier to drive without having an accident.”
“It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results.”
Source: Anopheles Gambiae in Brazil, 1930 to 1940
“It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.”
“It is much easier to fight through this thing called life with someone, as opposed to fighting alone. I absolutely want to be a wife and to come home to somebody who I know adores me.”
“It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“It is much easier to live without a "brain".”
“It is much easier to make an Active Patriot into a friend rather than the other way around.”
“It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.”
Source: The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror
“It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring”
“It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.”
“It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.”
“It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.”
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.”
Source: Papers of John Adams, Volume 18: December 1785 - January 1787
“It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.”
Source: Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror
“It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.”
“It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.”
“It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.”
Source: The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life
“It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.”
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”
Source: Practical Morality; Or, A Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son. To which is Added, a Supplement Containing Extracts from Various Books, Recommended by Lord Chesterfield to Mr. Stanhope. Together with the Polite Philosopher; Or, An Essay on the Art which Makes a Man Hapopy in Himself, and Agreeable to Others; Dr. Blair's Advice to Youth; Dr. Fordyce on Honour as a Principle; Lord Burghley's Ten Percepts to His Son; Dr. Franklin's Way to Wealth; and Pope's Universal Prayer
“It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.”
“It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.”
“It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.”
“It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.”
Source: A Bridge Across the Ocean
“It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.”
“It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.”
Source: Beauties of Festus
“It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for, as we have seen, all processes of production involve the direction of energy by some know-how structure toward the selection, transportation, and transformation of materials into the product”
“It is much more beneficial to your health if you feel your way through life than think your way through life.”