Easily Quotes

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

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.

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

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 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.