“We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.” WorldFirstsMayArtEarthTurnsEasyHalfSupportTakenOur LivesSadnessCenturyCarMadResponseProsperityIntuitionEaseAppropriateWorks Of ArtAestheticConsumerismUnbelievableSculptureHammersOverconsumptionEasy ThingsBingeBiodegradable Author:Bill McKibben
“Canada has become trouble recently ... It's always the worst Americans who go there ... We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They're the only good parts of Canada.” WantEasyTakenTroubleWorstAreasWesternCanadaCowboyRight WingSkis Author:Ann Coulter
“I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.” ThinkingWorldWantHumansStillsImportantHardUseWantedMotherChoicesFightingEasyHuman BeingsTakenTalentUnderstoodFeministGrandmotherMy GrandmotherReservations Author:Erica Jong
“The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.” MenGivingMayEasyPrinciplesPracticeTakenEvidenceAll ThingsPossessionDaily LifeSincerity Book:Among My Books: Six Essays Source: Among My Books: Six Essays
“In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.” ThinkingWayWantWritingBookDifferentMatterWantedAmericaEasyCommonTakenFansHavensSellsSellingTendenciesExpensesWant SomethingHappy EndingsSold OutDifferent BooksSelling Books Author:Steven Tyler
“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.” IfsWayYearsLooksHas BeensSaidDoneHomeBigsThreeEasySimpleNumbersTakenFiveAdviceNew YorkHundredRedFormerHopefullyManagersFive YearsHallsNo BrainerGeneral Manager Author:Roger Clemens
“Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.” MindEasyUnderstandingKnowledgeTakenTroubleHabitIntelligenceLazinessIdlenessConstancyCramps Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.” IfsEasyTakenHonestAdvantageTaken AdvantageNot Honest Author:Katherine Heigl
“We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light.” HumansSelfLightChristianHouseEasyTakenInfluenceBuiltStriveBurdenGods WillFavourPromotionYokeSelf Promotion Author:Rick Joyner
“Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.” EnoughEasyRoomsTakenProveMethodHotelHospitalityHotel RoomsPicture Taken Author:Gabriel Lippmann
“Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken” HardReasonEasyDifficultTakenDangerousUnreachable Author:David Platt
“We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.” WayEasyTakenRepublicanEasy Way Author:Rand Paul
“You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.” KnowsNextLeftEasySleepForgetTakenToo MuchMinutesCoupleWake UpTwentiesPillsIrresponsibleMedicationForget YouLeft AloneSleeping Pills Author:Judy Garland
“From what type of software could help us make a movie faster to everything else regarding the textures. Some might think, "It's probably very easy to make a film with those textures," but it's much more difficult than what it appears to be. We had to discover a faster process because otherwise it could have taken us 10 years to make it.” ThinkingYearsHelpingMightFilmEasyProcessDifficultTakenTypeFasterSoftwareTexture Author:Alex Abreu
“I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveLooksI BelieveEasySimpleLaughingTakenOrdinaryPhotographerPhotographTouchedOrdinary PeopleWince Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
“All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.” WorldIdeasHomeLightMotivationPassionNextEasyLosesChallengesInterestingMorningTakenEasierTasksTestsCourtSurpriseBarsAriseBeerChanging The WorldAbandonNext DayConquestPredictableInteresting ThingsNew ChallengesNapkinsLusterMorning Light Author:Scott Berkun