Cannot Easily Quotes

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After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we… — Genesis P-Orridge
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. — Samuel Johnson
When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly… — Roger Delano Hinkins
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world -… — Ulrich Beck
State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes… — Roger Scruton
Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood. — Ralph Cudworth
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in… — Carl von Clausewitz
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed… — Charles Loring Brace
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world… — Kevin Bales
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk… — Henry David Thoreau
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot… — Jim Ryun
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs. — Barbara Tuchman
It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It… — Winston Churchill
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character… — Jean Paul
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy… — Ai Weiwei
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in… — Terry Pratchett
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone elseâ€™s shoes and understand the otherâ€™s different and contradictory sides and refrain from… — Azar Nafisi
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise… — William Kingdon Clifford

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