Ease Quotes · Page 21

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

— Honore de Balzac

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds…

— William Golding

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.”

— Colum McCann

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

— Samuel Rogers

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

— Oscar Wilde

I never thought that alcohol could ease the notion of the sadness, Now what used to be a happy home done turned…

— Big Boi

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

— George Eliot

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one…

— Dylan Thomas

I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted…

— William Butler Yeats

Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate,…

— Delmore Schwartz

The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to…

— Michael Craig-Martin

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs.…

— Elvis Presley

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities,…

— Jeremy Taylor

Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired…

— Carl Sagan

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it…

— William Osler

Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go…

— Francis Quarles

We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less…

— Greg Kramer

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care…

— Anonymous

“It's weird I don't know anything about you," "What are you talking about? We just spent the whole day together." "Yes, but…

— Harriet Evans

Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine.…

— Stan Rice

It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some…

— Karl Popper

“Editing can feel incredibly burdensome for self-published authors when you are tasked to reread your work, for what feels like, a thousand…

— Robin S. Baker

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

— Alexander Pope

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and…

— Plato

Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way…

— Tom Sizemore

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

— Eva Burrows

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

— Jeremy Collier

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

— Sharon Salzberg

I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to…

— Martine Franck

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

— Newell Dwight Hillis

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of…

— Donald Justice

I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance.

— Evangeline Lilly

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

— Daniel Kahneman

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

— Anonymous

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

— Gao Xingjian

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

— Terry Pratchett

I'm not going to say it's easy, but I do have an ease with picking up fight choreography because of my dance…

— Katrina Law

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

— Samuel Johnson