Simple Quotes

Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.

Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.

Patch? Whatever happens, I love you." I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at the same time, so simple and accurate, nothing else would do.

I'm touched, Rixon. A bomb. How elaborate. Why didn't you keep things simple and just march inside my bedroom one night and put a bullet between my eyes?" Nora, Crescendo

Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It's like heaven to me I must confess.

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?

If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.

Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

My job is to watch the powerful. It's a simple job description, watch powerful people and make sure they don't hurt the folks.

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.

The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it.

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

What drives me is truly inspiring people to realize they can live more creative and simple lives.

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.

I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.

The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.