Easily Quotes
2846 Easily quotes by 1994 unique authors
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by…
— Ben Jonson
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I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.
— Winston Churchill
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Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and…
— Erica Jong
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When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most…
— G. H. Hardy
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You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people.…
— James L. Brooks
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[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission…
— Susan Minot
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We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for…
— William Butler Yeats
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. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little…
— Vincent de Paul
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She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer…
— Sharon Shinn
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These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need…
— Mary Todd Lincoln
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From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into…
— Carl Safina
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After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of…
— John Ralston Saul
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Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.
— Publilius Syrus
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior…
— Isaac Asimov
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Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put…
— Hesiod
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As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14…
— J M Coetzee
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It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment…
— Dean Koontz
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I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
— Tom Petty
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Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step…
— Johnny Vegas
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My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can…
— Sally Phillips
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a…
— Isaac Asimov
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
— Marquis de Sade
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The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were…
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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