1.
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
William Golding
I am astounded by the swiftness with which individuals who lack knowledge arrive at a fervent conclusion when they have no evidence to base it on.
2.
I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
Shane Koyczan
I will embrace myself despite the temptation to do otherwise.
3.
Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.
Ida Rolf
'Fortitude earned through toil is not the answer; rather, you must seek the strength that comes from serenity.'
4.
Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.
Auguste Escoffier
6.
Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.
John Denver
7.
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction
William James
8.
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
J. C. Ryle
9.
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
John Calvin
10.
The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.
David F. Houston
11.
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
Daniel Kahneman
12.
It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.
Johannes Brahms
13.
we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.
Jane Frances de Chantal
14.
The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.
Terence Conran
15.
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
[Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement,
Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
16.
My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
Pat Conroy
17.
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things
Gilles Deleuze
18.
I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.
Martine Franck
19.
The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.
Paul Schrader
20.
Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.
Allen Ginsberg
21.
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
Samuel Johnson
22.
Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.
Rosa Parks
23.
True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
Coco Chanel
24.
Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.
Bruce Lee
25.
More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
Plato
26.
All beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds
left silent by laying to rest all things.
Buddhadasa
27.
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.
Leontyne Price
28.
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
Zhuangzi
29.
In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
Jack Kevorkian
31.
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.
Eckhart Tolle
32.
Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.
Ryan Allis
33.
Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
Saadi
34.
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Samuel Johnson
35.
Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.
Pete Rose
36.
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.
Isocrates
37.
Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.
Rodney Yee
38.
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
Elliott Erwitt
39.
I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
Bette Midler
40.
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
Jonathan Edwards
42.
The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.
Doug Stanhope
43.
The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.
Thomas Young
44.
Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster
Jackie Stewart
45.
Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
Robin Hobb
46.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
William Blake
47.
The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease.
Anne Graham Lotz
48.
What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?
Richard Koch
49.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.
David Whyte
50.
The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
David Mamet