Easy Things Quotes - Page 2

• Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

  Larry Wall

  Easy, Should, Hard

  Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2004). “Programming Perl: 3rd Edition”, p.4, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.

  Antonio Banderas

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Love You

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• Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Fog, Together, Film

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• We are not filled with the Spirit of God to do easy things. He fills us with His Spirit so we can do impossible things.

  Joyce Meyer

  Impossible Things, Spirit, Easy

  Joyce Meyer (2012). “Joyce Meyer Ebook Value Bundle”, p.43, Hachette UK

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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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• To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

  Alice Walker

  Pain, Mean, Fighting

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.87, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Literature

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• I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Thinking, Venus

  "AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.

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

  Kami Garcia

  Life, Inspire, Beautiful Creatures

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• The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

  Adyashanti

  Looks, May, Easy

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• It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

  Dianne Wiest

  Crazy, Paris, People

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• Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may avoid pregnancies and comply with the strident voice demanding a reduction of children. It was never easy to bear and rear children, but easy things do not make for growth and development. But loud, blatant voices today shout 'fewer children' and offer the Pill, drugs, surgery, and even ugly abortion to accomplish that. Strange the proponents of depopulating the world seem never to have thought of continence!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Husband, Children, Pregnancy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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