Easy Things Quotes - Page 5

• Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Anxiety, Bears, Easy

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• It is not an easy thing to do [found the tone right away].

  Deborah Kaplan

  Tone, Easy, Found

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• [Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Doctors, Meals

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

  Andre Holland

  Character, Years, Medicine

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• It's worth remembering that in 1965, something like 20% of Americans were against the war. Something like 70% were for the war. So, it wasn't a popular or an easy thing to do.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Remember, Easy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

  Jay Ellis

  Knowing, Hiv, Easy

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  Umberto Eco

  People, Want, Easy

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• Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

  Ninette de Valois

  Way, Easy, Weak

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• Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology.

  Gregory Bateson

  Healthy, Religion, Doe

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• Cardiac depression is very powerful, it's very black, it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing - it was difficult at first - to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.

  Robby Benson

  Powerful, Heart, Dark

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• For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, May, Littles

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.226

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• I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.

  Vera Farmiga

  Children, Stress, School

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

  Jeremy Piven

  Climbing, Stage Actors, Records

  Source: collider.com

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• It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

  William Blake

  Affliction, Easy

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.249, Pearson Education

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• Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Writing, Discovery

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1177, ShandonPress

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• A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

  Larry Wall

  Fall, Easy, Should

  Usenet article, 1997.

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• It's a horrible part of the game when you have to tell a player, probably somebody who has helped you win so much that his time is up. You treat them like family, and because they are your family it becomes even more hurting in the sense that you have got to say "well son, I'm sorry, you won't be a regular here, but you will still have a career elsewhere.' It's happened more than a few times but it is not an easy thing to handle.

  Alex Ferguson

  Hurt, Sorry, Son

  "Fergie reveals all: Why I turned down Abramovich, Moyes IS the right man for United... and you'll be throwing your money down the drain betting on me coming back (I'll be at the Kentucky Derby!)". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 2, 2013.

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• It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.

  Bill Parcells

  Easy, Quarterback, Backup

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• Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Government, Games

  Sarah Palin's speech as Running Mate of John McCain in Dayton, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com.

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• Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Dubious

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• It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

  Epictetus

  Men, One Day, Principles

  Epictetus “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus”, Lulu.com

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• It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Art, Mistake, Men

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• It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

  Martha Finley

  Names, Brain, Weapons

  Martha Finley (2012). “Elsie's Motherhood”, p.68, tredition

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• The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.

  John Allen Fraser

  Kings, Mean, Responsibility

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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