Simple Quotes

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

The mighty have such simple weaknesses. I like to think it’s God’s way of keeping things fair.

He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together.

The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days, And the secret to its meaning is found in simple ways.

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.

Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

I travel a lot, so I keep my look simple. My home décor style is pretty similar. I try to make it inviting, homey, and comfortable, with some special and personal pieces throughout.

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

I just look better in simple black things.

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer.

You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.

The criticism is that it's too simple, but my feeling is it's more of a challenge making someone feel an emotion in four notes than in 25 notes.

Saying you want to escape is the easy part; actually figuring out how to do it is not quite so simple.

The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.

The simple act of helping someone—with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.

I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple.

I started cutting my teeth on "Someone To Watch Over Me" [George Gershvin] in the college. I've sung that one for a while. There's something so simple and sweet about that lyric.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it.

Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.

Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.