Easier Quotes - Page 9

• Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

  David Eddings

  Hate, Forgiving, Rising

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• You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

  Justina Chen

  Running, Guy, Way

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Real, Ignorance

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• If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Motivational, Doors, People

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry for her. After all, Crowfeather took her as a mate to prove he was loyal to WindClan in spite of everything of trying to run off with the ThunderClan medicine cat. But she's a difficult she-cat to like, with her short temper and her possessivness over Crowfeather and her son, Breezepaw.

  Erin Hunter

  Running, Sorry, Cat

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• Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hurt, Tired, Past

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Emotion, Related

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• I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Reality, Thinking

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.104, Anchor

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• I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.

  Deb Caletti

  Children, Growing Up, Betrayal

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

  Nora Roberts

  Mean, Fate, Blood

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• If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Connections, Use

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.121, Penguin

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• Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Disease

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• ...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, People, World

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• Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder." "I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle." "I'm not talking about the deer," I said, hitting Milo on the back of his shoulder. "We need a ladder to look over the wall." "Or a catapult," Milo said seriously.

  Obert Skye

  Wall, Stupid, Thinking

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• In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

  David Clement-Davies

  Fighting, Secret, Moments

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• Killing people was far easier than making polite chitchat.

  Jennifer Estep

  People, Killing, Polite

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Tangled Threads”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Path, Truth Is

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• Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.

  Willa Cather

  People, Feelings, Going Away

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1031, eBookIt.com

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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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• Sharing revelations is easier when it doesn't matter.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Matter, Revelations

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.399, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

  Alan Brennert

  Pot, Cannibal

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• Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Love, Song, Lonely

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Taylor clapped three times for attention. "Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are fake, Miss Ohio's easier than making cereal, and Miss Montana's dress is something my blind meemaw would wear to bingo night." - "Beauty Queens

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Stars, Queens

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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