Easily Quotes
2846 quotes by 1994 authors
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People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions.…
— Brian Stableford
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings.…
— Irene Nemirovsky
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
— Juvenal
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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after…
— Bobby Jones
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the…
— H.G. Wells
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When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily, And you should…
— Jean de Joinville
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too…
— Brother Lawrence
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Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
— Marshall McLuhan
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People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.
— Eric Edmeades
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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their…
— Peter Høeg
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For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense…
— Emma Stone
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In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth…
— Thomas a Kempis
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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