Easier Quotes - Page 12

• You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Hair, Facts, Losing

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fear, Voice, Challenges

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.55, PublicAffairs

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• She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Way, Bears, Knows

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.145, Bantam

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• It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.

  Chaim Potok

  People, Different, Use

  Chaim Potok (2012). “The Promise”, p.138, Anchor

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• It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sweet, Butterfly, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Way, Realising, Opposing

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• You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Crazy, Long

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• Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Inmates, Follow Me, Ifs

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• I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel." "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.

  Richelle Mead

  Doe, Answers, Guessing

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.683, Penguin

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• It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

  Lev Grossman

  Strong, Contradiction, Weak

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.320, Penguin

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• In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

  Emily Giffin

  Grief, Anger, Handle

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.336, Macmillan

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• Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close enough to see up the Rat's nose. I was so proud. Now there was a proper god, making himself useful! Since my thought might be deemed blasphemy, I said silent prayers to the Goddess and to Mithros. I begged forgiveness and asked them not to misunderstand. Since I wasn't blasted where I stood, I guess they forgave me, or they hadn't heard my blasphemy.

  Tamora Pierce

  Prayer, Cat, Black

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.234, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• You’re being remanded into Gourish custody…dead. (a Partini) ‘Cause let’s face it, dead was just easier. Or so they thought.’ (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Custody, Faces, Causes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire: The League: Nemesis Rising”, p.14, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

  Deb Caletti

  Numbers, Dancer, Pissed Off

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• in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing

  e. e. cummings

  Suicide, Spring, Real

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fighting, Thinking, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (1998). “Someone Like You”, Viking Childrens Books

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• The things we felt most are hardest to put into words. Hate is always easier to speak of than love. How shall I make love go through the sieve of words and come out something besides a pulp?

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Hate, Making Love, Speak

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.102, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• i want to stay with you." it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Voice, Knowing, Addiction

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• We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.

  Ann Aguirre

  Hero, Fighting, Thinking

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• Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

  Bell Hooks

  Real, Believe, Love Is

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• It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Loneliness, Fate

  Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.38, Heinemann

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• She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.

  Emma Bull

  Hurt, Years, Defense

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• No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ideas, Speech

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.298, Penguin

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• It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

  Lora Leigh

  Forgiveness, Permission, Asks

  Lora Leigh (2012). “Lora Leigh: The Breeds Novels 7-11”, p.427, Penguin

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• Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit." ~ Georgia "The Friday Night Knitting Club

  Kate Jacobs

  Inspirational, Friday, Jobs

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