Ease Quotes

969 quotes by 757 authors

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail… — Ansel Adams
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it… — William Lyon Phelps
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its… — Horace
Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes… — Carl Sagan
It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts. — John Maurice Clark
The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry… — Fritz Machlup
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking,… — Adam Smith
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. — Richard M. Weaver
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway.… — Peter Ustinov
...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch… — William Shakespeare
A man who thinks that death is against life can never be non-violent. It is impossible. A man who thinks that death is the enemy… — Rajneesh
Change the emphasis, turn your attention around. If you become concerned with death, your life comes to be revealed to you for the first time,… — Rajneesh
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there,… — Thomas Jefferson
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. — Hal Borland
I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone. — Marilynne Robinson
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the… — Jane Austen
He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were… — Ernest K. Gann
The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter, it will go away when you learn to accept life's challenges with grace and… — Leon Brown
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace. — John Milton
Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous. — William Shakespeare

Who Wrote These Ease Quotes

757 authors contributed a total of 969 Ease Quotes, led by these top contributors: