Easier Quotes (page 12)

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• hurt
• fall
• die

Does it hurt?"' The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. Dying? Not at all,' said Sirius. 'Quicker and easier than falling asleep. J. K. Rowling

• wishes
• nephew
• little

[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions. P. G. Wodehouse

• nature
• history
• lies

When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios. Margery Allingham

• lies
• saying
• out

It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud. Neil Gaiman

• good
• thinking
• hair

It would be so much easier to be good if one’s hair was handsome auburn, don’t you think? L. M. Montgomery

• forgiveness
• hating
• hateful

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond David Eddings

• responsibility
• die
• saying

As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen. Jodi Picoult

• wishes
• makes
• mean

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. Robert E. Lee

• people
• evening
• world

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• giving
• search
• giving up

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. Gloria Steinem

• greatness
• you me
• thinking

It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and... Henry James

• thinking
• believe
• question

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question George W. Bush

• men
• progress
• lazy

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. Robert A. Heinlein

• thinking
• people
• technology

It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think. Jay-Z

• childhood
• hard
• hardly

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. F. Scott Fitzgerald