Cannot Easily Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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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
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
— Barbara Tuchman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from…
— Azar Nafisi
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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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