Easy Quotes - Page 53

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.

You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.

Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

There is the easy way and there is my way.

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.

"Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline"... "It's easy. Incredibly easy."

The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a hard tax to evade. So it makes the job of raising revenue easier. The revenues from the VAT can then be used to lower taxes on income and saving and investment. The Value-Added tax doesn't penalize work or saving; it's a tax on buying stuff.

The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a hard tax to evade.

It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.

Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks 32nd in total tax burden.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

But life’s never easy when you need it to be.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's the hard part.

You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.

Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized?