Simple Quotes

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and have fun. We like simple things, you know.

Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.

There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'

My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.

I get that we can't be together. And it's not like I'm so weak-willed that the simple act of saying hello to me will cause me to jump your bones in the hall.

No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.

Single parenthood is hard, but it's simple too. You just do everything yourself.

When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds. We did it before dinner at 5 o'clock. Then when dinnertime comes, they've already eaten vegetables.

I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.

Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.

I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.

I think what children can handle and what they're interested in is much deeper than people assume. It's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.

I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.

I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.

Are you living just a little and calling that life?

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.

Living isn't a simple thing...no one said it's supposed to be.

This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.

Everything seems simple until you think about it.

I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it.

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.