Ease Quotes - Page 34

• The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

  John Adams

  Cheer, Men, Numbers

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.320, Library of America

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• I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.

  John Gay

  Skills, Twists, Sides

  John Gay, Marcus Walsh (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Taylor & Francis

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• In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

  Adam Smith

  Kings, Fighting, Mind

  1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

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• Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

  William Jones

  Simple, Pearls, Flow

  Sir William Jones (1783). “A Grammar of the Persian Language ... The third edition, with an index”, p.134

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• There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Morning, Men, Mind

  "No Country for Old Men Novel by Cormac McCarthy". Book by Cormac McCarthy, July 19, 2005.

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• Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all those things that will help lower the cost and increase the ease of doing business across the region.

  Andrew Robb

  Simple, Trying, Cost

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

  Michel Ocelot

  Water, Fairy Tale, Language

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• It has a lot to do with just sort of trust in the relationship that builds between the filmmaker and the subject. There are some people who will never be relaxed in front of a camera, and in some ways that's my failing as a filmmaker to not put them at ease. It's also a function of time, and if you have that type of time.

  Liz Garbus

  People, Cameras, Way

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Many times people can access that being stage more fully and more easily if at first you are actually doing something. If you run, or dance, or do something kind of vigorous, and let the energy release, then sometimes it's easier to sit or lie down and then feel at ease and rest and be quiet and move inside.

  Shakti Gawain

  Running, Lying, Moving

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.

  David McCullough

  Morning, Thinking, Work You Love

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge, great Neanderthal thing, it's hard to create that little space of peace, and calm, and creativity, and ease. That's what you want the director to create for you, so that when you walk on the set, you forget all of that, and the fact that it's costing gazillions of dollars a second.

  Helen Mirren

  Creativity, Space, Directors

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Country, Would Be

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• Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.

  John of the Cross

  Prayer, Giving Up, Love You

  Saint John of the Cross, Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodríguez (1991). “The Prayers of Saint John of the Cross”

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

  Son, Giving, Joy

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• When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

  Jonathan Swift

  Cutting, Men, Clothes

  Jonathan Swift (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.73

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• Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.

  Maria Nemeth

  Focus, Grace, Clarity

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• Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Ambition, Men, Feelings

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.429, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

  Henry Ford

  Civilization, Mind, Abhorrent

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.10, 谷月社

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• For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

  John Dryden

  Thinking, Giving, Drink

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.133

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• A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.

  George Washington

  Teamwork, Moving, Men

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

  John Milton

  Littles, Frail

  1637 Lycidas, l.152-3.

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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  John Milton

  Mother, Age, Lap

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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• Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

  Aesop

  Long, Toil, Long Life

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• There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

  Epictetus

  Adversity, Men, Difficulty

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.168

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