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simple order wish
Richard P. Feynman Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.
simple envy may
Richard John Neuhaus Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.
simple luxury evil
Richard Hofstadter To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....
simple difficult science-and-religion
Richard Dawkins Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
simple needs individual
Richard Dawkins A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.
simple chinese handcuffs
Rick Riordan Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.
simple mind relax
William Shenstone Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
simple thinking despair
William Morris Hunt I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.
opposites walks setting
Richard Dawkins Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.
opposites funny-things envy
Robert M. Pirsig The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
opposites differences judging
Virginia Woolf The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.
opposites water gold
Rebecca Solnit If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
opposites telling-the-truth
Nelson Eddy In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
opposites age becoming
Nawal El Saadawi I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
opposites creative synthesis
Martin Luther King, Jr. But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
opposites temptation satan
R. C. Sproul The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
opposites impossible
R. Buckminster Fuller The opposite of nature is impossible.
talking
William Farmer I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.
talking
Bob Lachky I think you're talking about a two-year play at least.
talking
Stephen Smith It is frustrating because we're not getting 10 to 12 inches. You're talking about 2 to 4 inches. We live in Wisconsin. It is not like this is unusual.
talking
Bill Callahan What do you mean? What are you talking about?
talking
Denise Holmes It is significant. We're going from talking to doing.
talking wished worked
Chris Lofton He was just talking about how he wished it would have worked out for me up here.
talking
Jackie Gentry I'd been talking about it for a long time.
talking
Dwayne Jarrett He was the only one talking in the huddle.
talking terrible
Richard Ayoade I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.