“Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.” YearsWantedEasyStruggleHappenedPromiseOffers Author:Morgan Freeman
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.” LongTwoEndsEarthLastsLyingEasyWomenNatureChanceProgressOffersFairsClimate ChangeFeministSpeedDisasterFamiliarEmpoweringDestinationSmoothTraveledPreservationFrostForksSilent SpringFork In The RoadTwo Roads Author:Rachel Carson
“When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.” MatterEnoughEasyFireOffersCreaturesPicksSticksIgnorantSpiteAppetiteHelplessThickets Author:Laurence Sterne
“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?” MenGivingShouldMayHomeBeautifulEasyTechnologyFitOffersStonesWingsSpotsDustPrisonerTransitionToilWormsBricksPilgrimageTimber Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Chef and Ubuntu are often inseparable in serious server deployments, making mutual integration a must for our users. We're excited to offer Chef as part of the Ubuntu distribution and to deliver easy bare metal provisioning with MAAS and Chef.” EasySeriousOffersExcitedMutualMetalsUsersChefIntegrationDistributionInseparableUbuntuDeploymentServerMaa Author:Mark Shuttleworth
“As a skilled psychologist, Dr. Reznick draws from her wealth of experience to offer children and parents a treasure trove of skills to relieve stress. She presents well-written, easy-to-follow tools to use in every situation. From visualization techniques to breathing exercises, Dr. Reznick taps the power of a child's imagination to ensure kids achieve peace and success.” WellsChildrenUseKidsEasyParentImaginationWealthSituationWrittenAchieveExerciseOffersSkillsDrawsToolsStressTechniqueTreasureBreathingDrsPsychologistVisualizationChildren And ParentsWell WrittenStress RelievingChildren's Imagination Author:Judith Orloff
“We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.” SchoolUsedSocialEasyMediaOffersConnectionsSocial MediaInstantCharacteristicsTunesParticipationGratificationInstant Gratification Author:Adora Svitak
“The computer needs...even by accident, offers incredible beautiful things that are very seductive. And if you forget about, or if you don't have an idea to begin with, it is very easy to be seduced and that is not a good use of the computer.” IfsNeedsIdeasUseBeautifulEasyForgetOffersComputerIncrediblesAccidentsBeautiful ThingsSeductive Author:Massimo Vignelli
“I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.” WorldEnoughBeautifulSpiritualCultureEasySidesOur LivesMaterialsFineOffersLuckyI RealizedMaterialismBeautiful ThingsConsumedNeglectedGreat SuccessMaterial World Author:Tom Ford
“Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.” HardLastsLife IsOpportunityEasyBornChallengesOffersBreathsOpportunities And Challenges Author:Avery Johnson
“Popularity is the product of two factors: (a) how compelling material you offer, and (b) how easy it is to access it. Host free pirated movies and users will flock to the site, even if it's difficult to use.” IfsTwoUseEasyDifficultMaterialsProductsOffersAccessFactorsHostUsersCompellingPopularitySiteFlocks Author:Jakob Nielsen
“Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life.” SaidSufferingDiesJesusEasyChristGraceCostOffersBuiltCrossesSalvationEasy LifeCheap Grace Author:Billy Graham
“There are fourteen keys to experiencing greater love and with each key, I offer what I believe to be the most effective tool out there. So this is a time when, if we're awake to it, we have an amazing opportunity to start living a different life. By that I mean the life that our souls came here to live. We're all being propelled forward and it's not always easy, but through supporting one another we can do it.” IfsBelieveMeanDifferentSoulOpportunityI BelieveEasyCan DoGreaterKeysOffersToolsAwakeFourteenDifferent LifeGreater LoveAmazing Opportunities Author:Marci Shimoff
“It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the '60s to have an upbeat, hopeful, cartoonish tale of a hero's journey. I think those explanations are easy to offer and almost always wrong.” ThinkingKindWarCultureStarsEasyPerfectCommonJourneyColdHeroOffersLateTalesExplanationHopefulVietnamCold WarAftermathAlways WrongUpbeat Author:Cass Sunstein
“Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I think they can see it all right there. It's like, "Here's what the movie looks like."” ThinkingWorldLooksBookEasyNovelOffersStudiosComicComic BookGraphicScreenwritersGraphic Novels Author:Ryan Reynolds
“What you put out comes back. The more you sincerely appreciate life from the heart, the more the magnetic energy of appreciation attracts fulfilling life experiences to you, both personally and professionally. Learning how to appreciate more consistently offers many benefits and applications. Appreciation is an easy heart frequency to activate and it can help shift your perspectives quickly. Learning how to appreciate both pleasant and even seemingly unpleasant experiences is a key to increased fulfillment.” HeartHelpingEnergyEasyPerspectiveKeysOffersBenefitsAppreciateAppreciationFulfillmentPleasantApplicationLife ExperienceConsistentlyFulfillingSincerelyFrequencyMagneticActivateAppreciate LifeFulfilling LifeUnpleasant Experiences Author:Doc Childre
“Every purchasing decision involves a trade-off between what I call fidelity and convenience. Fidelity is the total experience of something - how great the experience is. Convenience is how easy it is to get something. A live concert is a high fidelity way to experience music; an MP3 file is a high convenience way to experience music. Depending on the situation, one or the other is probably pretty appealing. What's not appealing is something that offers neither.” WayEasyDecisionSituationOffersTradeConcertsFilesConvenienceFidelityPurchasingTrade OffsMp3Live ConcertsHigh Fidelity Author:Kevin Maney
“The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.” RealEasyCommonBloodWalkingExerciseOffersActivityBenefitsEvidencePressureIncludingMoodObjectionsRatiosBlood PressureCholesterol Author:Andrew Weil
“I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second on. But clearly, she'd been there before. It was obvious in the easy way she shrugged off her bag, letting it fall with a thump onto the sand, before sitting down beside me. She didn't pull me close for a big bonding hug or offer up some saccharine words of comfort, both of which would have sent me running for sure. Instead she gave me nothing but her company, realizing even before I did this that this, in fact, was just what I needed.” WayFactsBigsRunningFallEasyRealizingCompanyNeededComfortOffersSittingObviousExpectedSandBagsHugSitting DownBondingEasy WayWords Of Comfort Author:Sarah Dessen
“Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.” PeopleIfsMenWantWould BeEasyLove IsImpossibleHeardLove YouBrokenMetsOffersAnd LoveRelationStaringExceptionGail Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that you wouldn't notice that it had things attached - heavy things, things like pity and need, that were weighty as anchors and iron beams and just as impossible to get out from underneath.” NeedsUsedEasyImpossibleOffersHeavyPityIronSugarUsersCreepsAnchorsBeamFelonsHeavy Things Author:Deb Caletti