An exacting, arbitrary mind perhaps might evolve a set of resolutions that even the most intolerant would hesitate to violate, but for an easygoing, trouble-dodging brain like my own there is no such thing as tenacity of purpose, unless it be in the direction of an obfuscated tendency to maintain its own pitiful equilibrium.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
Being a bachelor with outdoor tastes and an easygoing disposition, it was not at all impossible to understand his choosing the estate of his family to settle down on, isolated though it was.
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston
They're jolly and easygoing; they won't mind.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009