Quotes about simple
simple honor would-be
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Oscar Wilde
simple truth-is economics
The truth is never pure and rarely simple. Oscar Wilde
simple would-be seems
The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be. Paul Fussell
simple blue simplicity
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. Paul Gauguin
simple islands desert
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. Patrick McGoohan
simple government-intervention census
Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. Patrick McHenry
simple stories love-story
Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them. Patrice Leconte
simple thinking who-i-am
People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am. Paris Hilton
simple ideas bored
I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university. Lily Cole
simple deception ignorant
A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant. Lillian Hellman
simple mathematics form
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. Leopold Kronecker
simple june effort
A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one. Leon Jouhaux
simple research want
I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research. Larry Page
simple men europe
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. Lafcadio Hearn
simple problem humans
Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about. P. J. O'Rourke
simple government miracle
How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing. P. J. O'Rourke
simple thinking perfectly-good
I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting. Paul McGann
simple wish may
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish. Paul Cezanne
simple curiosity asking
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity. Oscar Wilde
simple shoes pumps
I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses. Imelda Marcos
simple economic-value giving
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible. Gloria Steinem
simple views feminism
Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether. Gloria Steinem
simple worry world
How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future.
simple bridges people
There is first of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank. It is a simple bridging problem, a problem of knocking together a bridge. People solve such problems every day. They solve them, and having solved them push on. J. M. Coetzee
simple generosity guilt
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. J. M. Coetzee
simple unhappy emotion
Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy." J. K. Rowling
simple thinking gone
He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock of it. He’s gone and he’s not coming back. And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again. J. K. Rowling
simple gestures comfort
It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk? J. K. Rowling
simple perfection giving
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult. Natalia Makarova
simple thinking makeup
I think mascara is a must. If I'm going to wear makeup somewhere, and I'm doing it, it's usually really simple - it's just mascara and maybe a tiny bit of eyeshadow, but that's it. Kendall Jenner
simple meditation soul
The Witness is a huge step forward, and it is a necessary and important step in meditation, but it is not ultimate. When the Witness or the soul is finally undone, then the Witness dissolves into everything that is witnessed. The subject/object duality collapses and there is only pure nondual awareness, which is very simple, very obvious. Ken Wilber
simple feelings littles
It is not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness," because that's a little too heady, too cognitive. It's more like the simple Feeling of Being. You already feel this simple Feeling of Being: it is the simple, present feeling of existence. Ken Wilber
simple forever world
And whatever the form of your own resurrection, you will arise, driven not by the Great Search, but by your own Great Duty, your limitless Dharma, the manifestation of your own highest potentials, and the world will begin to change because of you. And you will never flinch, and you will never fail in that great Duty, and you will never turn away, because simple, ever-present awareness will be with you now and forever, even unto the end of the worlds, because now and forever and endlessly forever, there is only Spirit, only intrinsic awareness of just this, and nothing more. Ken Wilber