Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antony Beevor

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

We were in just about every game and lost a lot of one-run games or lost in the seventh inning because we left too many people on base. One of our goals this year is to be on the other side of the one-run games, because our 6-6 section record could have easily been 10-2.

Justin Williams

We were down 20 with five minutes left and could've easily given up. Instead we fought back and that goes to show our team won't give up.

Adoniram Judson

A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals.

Geoff Mulgan

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

Cesare Beccaria

The severity of punishments ought to be relative to the state of the nation itself. Stronger and more easily felt impressions have to be made on a people only just out of the savage state. A lightning strike is needed to stop a fierce lion who is provoked by a gunshot.

Samuel Butler

Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily

I'm not afraid, ... I'm not easily intimidated.

Catherine Jinks

I'm not a risk-taker; that's probably why I write - because when you're easily bored, but you don't like taking risks, you end up doing it all in your head.

I like reading touching stories and am easily moved by them.

Jason Mraz

I want to know why we exist and what I can do while I'm existing. Basically. it's learning how to exist, wholely, consciously. Growing up on fast food and television shows, you can easily forget to exist. You can even be treated as if you don't.

Joey Skaggs

I wanted to use the Internet because while fact and fiction are so easily manipulated and blurred, it has also become an ubiquitous and supposedly reliable source for information.

They could have easily been thinking about a warm room or a warm bed, but they focused and got the job done.

They could easily gate it, which they probably should.

Simon Poidevin

They did not fade in that Crusaders game in a very intimidating environment and could quite easily have won it.

There's nothing to say that he's not going to go to another school. He could very easily go to any other school. (I) don't know whether he'd have the same success in going into the building, but this person could do the same thing.

What this task requires in the way of higher intellectual gifts is a sense of unity and a power of judgement, raised to a marvelous pitch of vision, which easily grasps and dismisses a thousand remote possibilities an ordinary mind would labor to identify, and wear itself out in doing so.

We won three in a row, we lost three in a row and we can very easily win three in a row again. What we can't do is take steps back. Even though we didn't win, we made a step forward today.

We could easily go up another $3. This whole Iran issue could be around for quite some time yet.

We could easily be 2-0 right now. But I see potential for this football team to probably not lose another game. We're on the rise. I can see us on the rise. We're not there right now, but we are getting better and we're getting better fast.

They're (Smith and Smith) good ones. They could easily do it (win a title) with those guys.

Tobias Wolff

I have to be honest, of course, but I have to be sure that my honesty comes in a form that is not destructive because it can very easily become so.

August Krogh

In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric, and must be so, because the integuments give way very easily to any excess of pressure, whether positive or negative.

I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

I guess it was just one of those games. Thank goodness Justin stayed focused. He could have easily gotten frustrated with those errors, but he didn't. He pitched a great game.

I think nostalgia takes over when we think about people we once loved, and we tend to pick out all of the good parts. I could very easily sit here and say I still think about the one that got away, but the truth of the matter is that he didn't get away, he walked away...and I'm the girl he walked away from.

Mona Simpson

I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure.

Kate Christensen

If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.

David Bergen

I didn't expect to be up here. I'm quite humbled by this and the main reason I'm humbled is that there were four others who could easily be up here; that humbles me. We have so many good writers in this country.

He's so big that everything has come very easily to him. He's just now learning to really push himself.

Alex Karpovsky

I'm from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.

I had them sold for $325 million, ... That was an initial offer, and could easily have gone higher if bidding took place. Today I'm not sure I could get $225 million for them.

I never take shots at his head, or his looks, or the way he dressed, or anything. And those are things that I could easily do.