(559 quotes found)
“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“I'm a Gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.”
Courteney Cox
“An image . . . is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.”
Democritus
“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.”
Cecil Rhodes
“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years”
Charlotte Bronte
“We might stop with 'Ghost.' We could easily put out another video — we've talked about a whole bunch of possible songs to make videos for — but we want to focus on doing some touring, and making a new record as soon as possible, ... So maybe we don't need to make another video. But I've always wanted to do a video for 'You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison,' so, really, who knows?”
Gerard Way
“I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure what can't be mended”
Isaac Watts
“The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.”
Randall Price
“When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.”
Max Stirner
