It’s not easy to kill; it’s not supposed to be. If it is, then there’s something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.

Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.

I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the difficult task of changing people by being just a man.

There’s something really easy and just somehow un-crowded about the Portland airport. Every time I go there I’m like, ‘Why is this so easy and sweet?’

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It’s real easy to fall.

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.

The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it’s so big and overwhelming, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd.

‘Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don’t teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

It’s not always easy being a full-time feminist – especially as a young woman – when you’re constantly being told that what you do is irrelevant. I’m on the defense all the time.

It wasn’t easy to adopt an American child. Actually it’s quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.

It’s real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that’s not very honest.

At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.

It’s easy to see what to do once it’s already been done. The difficult time is before it’s to be done, and while you’re doing it. This is the difference between writing and editing.

Some people think I can only do fancy; I don’t know why. I’m a pretty easy person, really. Low maintenance. I get on with things, and I’m comfortable anywhere.

Twitter is so severe, you know? And it’s completely for free, it’s scattershot, and it’s very easy to feel embarrassed. It’s hard to be artful with it. It’s like a ticker tape. It’s not a forum that’s worth mastering, you know?

Technologically, the Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new ISPs or new forms of expanding access.

If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it’s so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that’ll lead you to another wine.

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that’s the hard work.

Sometimes I’ll do a mask if I had a lot of makeup on that day or was out in the sun. I like a hydrogen mask. It’s an easy one, and it’s supposed to soothe and relax your skin.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Is it easier to get you to do what I want with a fist to your face, or a gentle pat on the back and a handshake? Let this be a lesson in power.

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

It’s so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.

It was like fighting with the MPAA… to me it was like this is an R easy… but it was NC 17 over and over and even with this cut they were like, you are right on the edge buddy, one more thing and it’s NC-17.

If something pops in my mind and it’s easy, I write it.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily...

It’s easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.

God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It’s so easy to get into that rut of production.

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect’s task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting.

I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.

It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not...

Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.

I don’t ‘handle’ people. It’s so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It’s very easy to say whatever’s going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It’s difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself...

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It’s easy.

Being an artist is not easy – I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It’s a huge sacrifice.