Ease Quotes

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

But now I salute you who follow me, It is my time to stand at ease ... content.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.

It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.

If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.

Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

You're the kiss that puts my soul at ease.

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

Going through a rough break-up? Nothing a little dance party with friends can't ease.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.

Easy street is a blind alley.

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]