Quotes about simple
simple simplicity foundation
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. William Morris
simple ease pearls
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung. William Jones
simple israel land
The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple. Yitzhak Shamir
simple thinking self
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. Winston Churchill
simple two negative
Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things – positive things and negative things. Rhonda Byrne
simple empty-life life-is
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. Rick Warren
simple background-noise water
Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before—just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it. Rick Riordan
simple frank frank-zhang
Keep it simple (Frank Zhang)
simple reality normal
These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit. Viktor Khristenko
simple thinking people
The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset. Robert G. Allen
simple myth irresponsible
Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible. Robert Graves
simple emotional differences
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.
simple thinking joy
I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that crystallization is itself a step toward joy. I love to think that when a bud bursts into blossom: it feels a thrill. I love to have the universe full of feeling and full of joy, and not full of simple dead, inert matter, managed by an old bachelor for all eternity. Robert Green Ingersoll
simple giving naked
Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit. Rudyard Kipling
simple garden joy
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna Rumer Godden
simple advertising cry
Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares. Rosser Reeves
simple ideas anxiety
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention. Rowan Williams
simple political answers
There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones. Ronald Reagan
simple people mind
You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more. Robert Jordan
simple men skills
Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.
simple discovery world
This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for each other. We have failed to care for each other. Robert Jensen
simple giving matter
It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters. William Hague
simple acting truthful
Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting. William H. Macy
simple world-love forgiving
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. William Hazlitt
simple men self
I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.... Wendell Berry
simple trying limits
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
simple hunger ecstasy
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. W. Somerset Maugham
simple mind way
Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds. Vladimir Nabokov
simple numbers gentleman
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
simple light hands
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
simple thinking breathing
I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages. Yoko Ono
simple killing used
It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing. Yann Martel
simple games elements
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.