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“It's not easy to define poetry.”
Bob Dylan
“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
Warren Buffett
“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.”
Michelangelo
“Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.”
James Madison
“Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.”
Marilyn Manson
“When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.”
Michelle Obama
“Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.”
Michelle Obama
“I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.”
Joel Osteen
“Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.”
Blaise Pascal
“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”
Ronald Reagan
“To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.”
Keith Richards
“As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.”
Babe Ruth
“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.”
Henry Rollins
“Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.”
James Dean
“I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.”
Steven Spielberg
“I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?”
John Steinbeck
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.”
Jonathan Swift
“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”
Richard Bach
“Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.”
Walter Hagen
“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.”
Albert Ellis
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
Edward Morgan Forster
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
Thomas Fuller
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
