All Quotes

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
‐‐ Jerome K. Jerome

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.
‐‐ Charles R. Swindoll

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.
‐‐ Sebastian Bach

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
‐‐ John Osborne

It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
‐‐ Randeep Hooda

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
‐‐ David Boies

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
‐‐ Hosea Ballou

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
‐‐ Aesop

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
‐‐ Mahalia Jackson

It is easy to be inspired by history when you're living in a part of it and allow that to seep into your writing: having said that, a minimalist room with no distractions is often better; the most exciting visions should already be in your head.
‐‐ Simon Toyne

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.
‐‐ Mark Zandi

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
‐‐ Herbert Samuel

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
‐‐ Leo McKern

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
‐‐ Lyman Abbott

It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.
‐‐ Norm Coleman

It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
‐‐ Josiah Stamp

It is easy to fall into despair thinking about all that is wrong with the world. The joys seems so small in comparison. Internet videos of cats riding Roombas just can't compete with a father talking about how his dead 13-year-old son had wanted to be a pilot.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
‐‐ David Harsanyi

It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.
‐‐ Dave Morris

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
‐‐ Alice Morse Earle

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.
‐‐ Chuck Hagel

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
‐‐ Confucius

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
‐‐ Stanley Milgram

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.
‐‐ Vikram Patel

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.
‐‐ Lee Gutkind

It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.
‐‐ Tony Hoare

It is easy to react if everything is going great.
‐‐ Vince Gill

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
‐‐ Alice Meynell

It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
‐‐ George Eliot

It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
‐‐ Sam Harris

It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
‐‐ Bjarne Stroustrup

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.
‐‐ Richard Neal