First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
I think in the world of Internet trolls, people can shake your confidence really easily, with just one comment. As long as you can stand behind your work, it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks!
I’m a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a great rejuvenator, helped me to live down my image – this sex symbol thing. It helps me connect with myself.
I’m more of a visual person, but I think that reading’s extremely important. But I’m very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
There are many people around me, supporting me. There are always ups and downs, and you can really see the true support quite easily.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
I’ve never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don’t like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.
I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I’m in a constant state of self-protection, it’s exhausting.
It seems appropriate that the author of ‘1984’ was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public’s lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.
My looks aren’t something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily… I am still not recognised on the street that much.
I’ve always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
I do have a sense, and I’ve never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.
I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.
I was ‘gay-bashed’ when I was in school even though, you know, I’m not… I’m a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it’s easily relatable to me. It was awful. It’s a hard time in a kid’s life.
Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people’s beliefs.
I don’t feel the pressure by outsiders. I’m not someone who’s easily influenced by the public.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
To me, the mind and body are one. I’m very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I’m in.
Just because I have to deal with the stress and pressure and nerves of elite sport every day, it doesn’t mean it all comes easily. I have worked hard at the mental side of my game.
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.
I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.
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.
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors – science, capitalism, consumerism.
It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition – the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.
People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there’s no one way. It’s your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It’s your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.
I’m so easily inspired – if I like someone in the street’s clothing, I always say ‘You look amazing.’
I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.
I don’t get easily bored. I’m not that kind of person.
I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I’ve really studied it.
I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I’m an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father’s income was such that I wouldn’t have got a grant, and he wouldn’t let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.
I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer. I’ve been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I’ve allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it… accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.
Compared to our era, facilities in athletics have increased manifold. But contemporary athletes are not mentally tough. The new generation wants everything easily, but it is not possible in athletics.
I don’t get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!
I’m really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.
I’ve always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
Me personally, I think all the barriers that are put up between genres are so easily broken. People just love music that moves them.
Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.
I don’t startle easily.
Life in New York can be so, I don’t know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.
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.
Ever since I got to know how easily skin donation can save the lives of serious burns patients, I have felt strongly about the issue.
Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
