I Quotes
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“It is not easy to dress well.”
“It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.”
Source: The House I Loved
“It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?”
“It is not easy to express the inexpressible," he answered with a laugh.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
“It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.”
Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...
“It is not easy to fight elections with a development motto and I am glad people of Gujarat rose above personal and emotional tangles and prioritized development over everything else.”
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
“It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.”
“It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to continue to have feminine bodies, so many of these tacky sluts have never heard word one about what fashion entails.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.”
“It is not easy to free
myth from reality
or rear this fellow up
to lutch, lurch with them
in the tranced dancing of men.”
“It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.”
“It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.”
“It is not easy to go without-without physical gratifications or spiritual assurances or material possessions, but sometimes we must, since there is no guarantee of convenience written into our Christian covenant. We must work hard and do right, as Abraham Lincoln said, and sometime our chance will come. And when we've tried, really tried, and waited for what seemed never to be ours, then we may experience what the Savior experienced when 'the angels came, and ministered unto him.' (Matthew 4:11.) Surely that is worth waiting for.”
Source: However Long & Hard the Road
“It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.”
“It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.”
Source: The substance of man
“It is not easy to keep a friend convinced that you still deserve to be kept as a friend, especially if you hate lying.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
“It is not easy to let go, but when you do; not only do you realize the strength that lies within you, you also create an opportunity to see God perform the best of miracles in your life.”
“It is not easy to let someone go, even when they have said unforgivable things to you.”
Source: Remarkable Creatures
“It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved.”
Source: The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman
“It is not easy to make things simple - one must be sufficiently disgusted with brainless complexity”
“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”
Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions
“It is not easy to say "I love you". It is a great responsibility that we both will take. If you don't have the same feeling I have towards you, I will wish you all the best in your life and never obsess or even annoy you. But if not, you will be my whole world and I will be loyal to your love for the end of my life.”
“It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.”
“It is not easy to see our children suffer in the moment, of course, but it is far worse to see them suffer in the future, when an inability to sacrifice leaves them crippled in heart and spirit, unable to really love and be loved.”
Source: Forming Families, Forming Saints
“It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.”
Source: Chasing Odysseus
“It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.”
“It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society”
“It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.”
“It is not easy to succeed, but determination makes it possible. You have to work smart and overcome every obstacle.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.”
Source: The Rambler
“It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.”
Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis
“It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.”
Source: LITTLE DORRIT
“It is not easy wanting to change. It demands perseverance, tolerance, self control and most importantly, humility.”
“It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size.”
Source: Collected Poems
“It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas”
“It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path.”
“It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.”
“It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man-in a word, it is the Man himself.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.”
“It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.”
“It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.”
Source: Women as Lovers
“It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future event. In order to anticipate correctly they must also anticipate correctly the quantity as it were of each factor's contribution and the instant at which its contribution will become effective.”
“It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.”
Source: Memoirs of a tourist [by] Stendhal [pseud.] Translated by Allan Seager: With illus. by Roger Barr
“It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.”
“It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.”
“It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.”