Simple Quotes

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."

Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.

I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

How many things are there which I do not want.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Men are simple creatures. It doesn't take much to please us. The problem is women.

The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn't love a lot.

When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.

Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.

Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.

...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

Jesus Christ was a simple man walked around, did a few miracles, said a few things and died. It was enough for him to say what he felt and glow with the light of eternity.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

Just keep it simple. When you over-think what you're wearing, that's when wardrobe malfunctions tend to happen.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.

I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

My brain is very simple. Like when you break everything down. I see things in a simple way. And that simplicity for some reason becomes funny to other people because they don't look at it that way.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

I loved the movie for the simple reason that I saw the scenes and I saw Muhammad working with these guys.

For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

Sometimes love really is just that simple.

You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.

It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.