(277 quotes found)
“Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please”
Benjamin Franklin
“Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy [and] it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.”
Byron R. White
“We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences”
William Osler
“He's superb. Spectacular. Somebody said he runs with greased ease and I thought, 'What a perfect description of Vince Young.' It looks like his legs are greased, and his body is greased, and he's so fluid that he's just going to slip off the ones who are lucky enough to touch him.”
Darrell Royal
“The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.”
Pema Chodron
“Unlike all other forms of lute or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory; nor, if he wins far enough, shall there be any reward within himself.”
Ernest Hemingway
“His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.”
Jane Austen
“If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.”
John Ruskin
“Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease”
John Dryden
“Under no circumstances should we now ease our restrictions on arms sales to Iran. Such a policy reversal would be seen as inexplicably inconsistent by those nations whom we have urged to refrain from such sales, and would likely lead to increased arms sales by them and a possible alteration of the strategic balance in favor of Iran while (the Ayatollah) Khomeini is still the controlling influence.”
Caspar W. Weinberger
