Simple Quotes

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes me think." I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.

It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.

She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.

I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.

Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

Tikkun Olam Repair The World is simple, powerful, to the point and so professional sounding.

Everyone is ready to receive this new blueprint. It's simple, easy, flowing. Nothing too complicated, and everyone will feel at home being able to come in and just receive this energy.

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.

Sometimes you just have to sit down a lot and make sure everyone's cool. If someone has an issue, you make sure they don't keep it inside. That's been the model of the Simple Plan.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

I have always held the view that decisive force should be used in addressing a military conflict. The reason is simple: Why wouldn't you, if you could?

I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.

Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.

I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I live here?'

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

Smiling, sincere, incorruptible - His body disciplined and limber. A man who had become what he could, And was what he was- Ready at any moment to gather everything Into one simple sacrifice.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.

Love is a simple practice yet it is very beneficial for the individual who practices it as well as for the community in which he lives, for the nation, and for the whole world

I am a simple Buddhist monk.

What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Nothing is safe [in Lebanon], as simple as that.

Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.