Easy Things Quotes - Page 2

• Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

  Lucy Liu

  Art, Dedication, Discipline

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.

  Michelle Kwan

  Sports, Mistake, Fall

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• All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

  Eugene Field

  Wings, Joy, Heaven

  Eugene Field, Charles Walter Brown (1905). “John Smith, U.S.A.”

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• An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Heart, Sunshine

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1889). “The Afternoon Landscape: Poems and Translations”

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• Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

  Cleveland Amory

  Sports, Dog, Baby

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• When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?

  Mark Batterson

  Believe, Safe, Want

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• Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Respect, Freedom, Kindness

  "20 famous college commencement speeches" by Mo Elinzano, www.deseretnews.com. May 6, 2015.

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• After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Couple, Play, Work Out

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• Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

  Philip Neri

  Sweet, Angel, Thinking

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.48, St Athanasius Press

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• What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Change, Trust, God

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• There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything, if what we do stand for is under attack and we say nothing? There is nothing to be ashamed of here except to allow a radical and recessive group of people to bully and intimidate our mothers and sisters and daughters for exercising their right of choice.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  "Mark Ruffalo defends reproductive rights, talks about his mother’s illegal" by Katie Mcdonough, www.salon.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

  Susane Colasanti

  Real, Moving, People

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.163, Penguin

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• Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

  John Green

  Relationship, Easy, Break

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.36, Penguin

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• The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

  Kami Garcia

  Life, Inspire, Beautiful Creatures

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• Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Fighting, Controversial Topics, Two

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• Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Men, Civilization

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.229, Diversion Books

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• I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

  John Barnes

  Teacher, Thinking, Easy

  John Barnes (2009). “Tales of the Madman Underground”, p.295, Penguin

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• When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

  Suze Orman

  Heart, Giving, Easy

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• When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.

  Michelle Obama

  President, Reform, Care

  "Michelle Obama touts husband's humble roots, asks for time to see 'change' through", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2012.

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• That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Writing, Judging, Looks

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

  Martina McBride

  Careers, Important, Use

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• I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.

  Hulk Hogan

  Giving Up, Reality, Decision

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• Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Letting Go, Past, Survivor

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.69, Delacorte Press

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• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Literature

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• To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Flower, Mean, Garden

  Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

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