Easily Quotes

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

You never really want anything you can easily have.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.

I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.

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 from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.