Nothing Is As Easy As It Seems Quotes

#1. Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.

Gisele Freund

#2. A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

George R R Martin

#3. I can go years thinking that it seems impossible that I will ever satisfy that appetite again and then it is easy to satisfy and no one notices or cares, nor does it make me happy, when loneliness surrounds me like water I've already drowned in without dying.

Francisco Goldman

#4. No one said parenting was easy,but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard.

Gillian Duce

#5. To be simple is not always as easy as it seems.

Ferdinand Hodler

#6. Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you've seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.

Taylor Swift

#7. If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#8. It only seems difficult; it's not!

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. Death just seems to follow some of us, don't it? Death's been following me for years. It's easy to spot your own kind. That kind of sorrow you can't just wash away; it sticks to you. And people, they can tell. They can feel it.

Leslye Walton

#10. When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.

Annalee Newitz

#11. In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart.

Henri Nouwen

#12. It's easy to be a Christian when you're living the perfect life. It's easy to live a perfect life when God seems to be showering you with blessings.

Tessa Emily Hall

#13. It's easy to slip into darkness when light seems elusive..."
His Pleasures and Pain

Chevelle Allen

#14. Helping others fulfill their dreams seems like an easy way to keep from living your own.

Cerella Sechrist

#15. I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

Daniel Handler

#16. I have vaguely entertained the idea of learning how to use the Internet and email. It looks easy, but I'm sure it's harder than it seems. Never having used a computer makes a big difference. I haven't a clue which keys to press.

Bella Freud

#17. All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

Margaret Fuller

#18. Sometimes," she said, "it seems to me there's just these certain types of people that come around and around in our lives, know what I mean? Easy types and hard types; we run into them over and over.

Anne Tyler

#19. Living the 'easy' life today seems to make a 'difficult' life tomorrow.

Randall Wright

#20. One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

Patricia C. Wrede

#21. When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road.

Bob Goff

#22. It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?

Al Gore

#23. As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Jeanne Moreau

#24. Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.

Korie Robertson

#25. What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.

Henri Nouwen

#26. How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that bleeds! How easy it is to look death in the face when it's another man's turn!

Irene Nemirovsky

#27. Fashion now is just so confusing. It doesn't feel as easy. Fashion seems to be in a much more eclectic place.

Guido Palau

#28. There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life," Eri finally said. "And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve one problem, only to find that another one you hadn't anticipated arises instead. It's not that easy to get free of them.

Haruki Murakami

#29. Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried

Terry Fox

#30. Yet there are moments when I feel a continent apart, when their belonging seems easy and unforced and my own is only pantomime.

Nayomi Munaweera

#31. I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.

Jeanette Winterson

#32. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.

Fred Rogers