Simple Quotes

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

Affirmations are so easy that some people think they are too simple to be effective.

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

Real Understanding manifests itself as spontaneous natural and simple action, free of the depressing process of choice, pure without indecisions of any type.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.

There is no simple answer to what I think.

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

To expound and propogate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.

I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all.

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

To try to explain something as "I love it" and "It's fun" would be like describing the sunset over the middle of the ocean as "bright and pretty." It's just not that simple.

Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don't need to think about it and over analyze it when it's good.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.

I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.

Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.

Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.

My routine actually stays pretty simple and consistent. Every morning I use the X-Out Wash-In Treatment with warm water in the shower. I towel dry my face, apply a moisturizer-sunscreen, and go!

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

I used to exist in a simple world of right and wrong, positive and negative. I grew out of an ordered world. Everything had its place, before I came along and belonged nowhere.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

People always ask me about the intent of witchcraft and what it is used for. The answer in 'white' covens is simple: it is to be use the powers for good amongst the circle and its friends.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.