To Be Simple Quotes

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

Love is almost never simple.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

Sometimes not much is just enough.

Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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.

A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let’s just keep it simple and say he’s a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)

The complex develops out of the simple.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.

The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most.

The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

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.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.

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

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might!

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'