I Quotes
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“It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?”
“It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.”
“It is so easy to be hopeful in the day time when you can see the things you wish on.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”
“It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.”
Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.”
“It is so easy to break down and destroy.
The heroes are those who make peace and
build.”
“It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the perfect egg sheltering it. We must risk being raw and fresh and awkward. For without such openness, life will not penetrate us anew. Unless we are open, we will not be filled.”
Source: The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit
“It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.”
“It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news.”
Source: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
“It is so easy to exist instead of live.”
Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive”
“It is so easy to forget the importance of emotional self-care. Especially when we have obvious symptoms of mental and physical illness. Emotions seem irrelevant, unrelated, invisible. But when we look at a giant oak tree, the seed that bore it is invisible too.”
“It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.”
“It is so easy to have principles. Far, far harder to live by them.”
Source: How Long 'til Black Future Month?
“It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of
creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation
when we only restate a fact.”
Source: On the Origin of Species
“It is so easy to judge those around us and decide their value without knowing who they really are or what they truly represent.”
Source: Team Of One: We Believe
“It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better than I am; and I verily believe it is possible to make one’s whole life a display of splendid virtue and agreeable qualities, without ever setting foot towards the narrow path, or even one’s face towards the strait gate.” – Hannah More”
Source: Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
“It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“It is so easy to take the violet flame and to use it that I am certain that once you begin you will recognize that the violet flame and the angels of the violet flame are the servants of the sons and daughters of God and the children of the Light, that the violet flame joyously serves you and acts to cleanse your entire being so that, as Jesus said, your whole body can be full of light.”
“It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.”
Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.”
Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure.”
“It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.”
“It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.”
“It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.”
“It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it.”
“It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.”
Source: Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis
“It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)
“It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.”
Source: Summer to Die
“It is so good, so sweet and above all, so beneficial to suffer.”
“It is so gratifying to hear from people who look up to you and see you in these places that they never thought they could ever dream to be. It's emotional. You really feel like you're opening up people's minds, who otherwise thought that they couldn't dream big. That's such a huge opportunity. It's such a gift.”
“It is so gratifying to tell so many stories my eye can romance with, that i become the stories.
They shall live on after me, and in that way it makes me immortal”
“It is so great that fashion is not a question of price, and it can be more accessible to everyone interested in fashion.”
“It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.”
“It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.”
“It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.”
“It is so hard for a queer person to become an adult. Deprived of the markers of life's passage, they lolled about in a neverland dreamworld. They didn't get married. They didn't have children. They didn't buy homes or have job-jobs. The best that could be aimed for was an academic placement and a lover who eventually tired of pansexual sport-fucking and settled down with you to raise a rescue animal in a rent-controlled apartment.”
Source: Black Wave
“It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.”
“It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.”
“It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.”
Source: It's Always Something
“It is so hard nowadays to find a movie that I like. I don't mind blood and gore. But I mind when its a slasher film, and its some guy looking for women. I am opposed to that kind of thing. Blood and gore? I love that kind of thing.”
“It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.”
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
“It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“It is so hard to leave-until you leave.”
Source: Paper Towns
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
Source: Paper Towns
“It is so hard to stay afloat in a world
that just wants to drown you.”