I Quotes
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“It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.”
Source: The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life
“It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!”
“It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how all the tricks are done. The fact is you're still just another slack-jawed mark in the audience. No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.”
“It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.”
“It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.”
“It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.”
“It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.”
Source: The Monkey's Raincoat
“It's easy to spend - especially in this day and age - to spend your time not being in the present. It's very easy to be way ahead. What's tomorrow and the day after that?”
“It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.”
“it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone”
“It's easy to stand up and say I will destroy ISIS; I will make the sands in the Middle East glow in the dark. Well, that's fine, but you have to have something to do that with.”
“It's easy to stay in and work a lot. It's shitty weather, you don't go out and lay in the sun. That's a great thing to do - I love that, but in the summer I don't really get much done, because it's so nice to be outside. With the bad weather, you stay inside and dream. You create your own world, because you're not outside in the weather.”
“It's easy to struggle in New York. I think New York is a bit expensive.”
“It's easy to take the shortcut and use animal skins. But I think animal skins look tired. They're not very innovative. They're old-fashioned. And great fashion should be something new.”
“It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.”
Source: Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart
“It's easy to talk about our system not functioning. It's actually functioning exactly the way we've designed it to function by giving so much power to the political parties, which all of our, you know, leading founders - Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison - all said don't create political parties like the ones we have now. We did it, and we're paying a very high price for it.”
“It's easy to talk about what you're going to do but your actions speak words.”
“It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.”
Source: Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse
“It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.”
“It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.”
“It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.”
“It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.”
“It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a cop is black, like the three arrested in Baltimore, or one dead in Mississippi, the hard left uses race as the underlying cause. It's why there are no defiant marches when policemen are killed.”
“It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.”
“It's easy to win. Anybody can win.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly
“It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.”
“It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!”
“It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.”
“It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.”
“It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about
(That is, when you are young).”
“It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.”
“It's easy when you have receivers that are open all the time and an offensive line that never lets anyone touch you. It makes it fun to play.”
“It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the juggernaut of modernity.”
“It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do that. But I don't want it to be meaningless. I want it to actually say what I want it to say, and so I'm thinking about it again and again and again.”
“It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.”
Source: Vida: His Own Story
“It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight”
Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation
“It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.”
Source: American Gods
“It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.”
“It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!”
“It's ecstasy when you're laying down next to me.”
“It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.”
“It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere in between. You've got to be somewhere on the map.”
“It's either hip or it ain't.”
“It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.”
“It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.”
“It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.”
“It's either the flu or love... The symptoms are the same.”
“It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]”
“It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.”