Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
Bill Copeland

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.
Terence Stamp

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
Samuel Dash

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

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.
Lonnie Earl Johnson

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.
Silvan Shalom

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.
Joe Grant

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Thomas Sowell

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Dylan Thomas

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
Edie Brickell

Where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.
Christopher Anstey

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.
Mike Davidson

You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in.
David R. Ellis

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

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
Bruce Springsteen