Simple Quotes

The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working people.

Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

Ken & Mark weave a simple, compelling tale that contains profound truths. If only we all knew The Secret.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities.

Anything simple always interests me.

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow I keep myself sane.

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts

The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.

When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

Decide to get over it. You know, just let it go. It can be that simple.

If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.

Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.

Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .