It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.
I’m not a make-up person, but I love wearable products that are easy to use, with fun packaging.
It’s easy to make rude comments simply for the sake of being rude, but I’d much rather go a more psychological route.
It’s pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called ‘Red Cliff’ and they were so excited. They said, ‘Let’s do it!’ It’s that simple.
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
It’s not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it’s illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It’s a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.
Only entropy comes easy.
It’s so easy to just rip someone’s work apart.
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It’s a very easy, lovely life.
Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.
It’s so easy to make things complicated in business.
Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it’s really easy to look at someone else’s life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It’s easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it’s time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.
Easy is not an option!
If you’re doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you’re talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there’s enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
It’s certainly not easy for an outsider to make a mark because they don’t know anyone. You don’t get written about as nobody knows who you are. So, you don’t get that much attention when you are doing something compared to people that the media is aware of.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
It’s very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you’re dead, and I’m going to say that’s got to be a letdown.
It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.
As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it’s not easy trying not to be hot-headed.
It wasn’t easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.
Part of why I like watercolor is that mistakes are visible, and you can’t really repair much. It has to look easy. When it comes out, it looks easy, but to get to that point takes a lot of doing.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
My ideal fight would be against the smallest guy with the most atrocious record in the largest venue for the most insane paycheck. I love easy fights.
I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
Life wasn’t easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
There’s a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It’s really gone too far. I don’t know an easy way to turn it back.
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.
The blues and jazz will live forever… So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.
It’s joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you’re kind of an easy mark.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.
Love your enemies… it’s not always an easy tenet to live by… and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.
There are times you break up with a loved one, a friend, or whatever. You feel alone. It’s a very easy feeling to understand – the feeling of loss, heartache, and pain.
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it’s so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are ‘others’ whom we can legitimately make war upon.
I’m left-handed, and it’s not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I’ve only owned two of them.
The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs… we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.
Once you become known for one thing, it’s easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it’s really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can’t figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone’s offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
It’s easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It’s much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
I like second chances. I’ve given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It’s not easy to forgive. I definitely don’t forget, but I do forgive.
Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.
I’ve got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did – his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work – just unbelievable energy.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
I have always been skating, either with skateboards, ripsticks, longboards – so it’s been really easy to get used to the electric board. And no, you don’t have to wear certain shoes. I love to wear my crocs!
I’ve learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don’t lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I’ve made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I’ll disrupt it.
