Quotes about simple
simple men perfect
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded. Gregory David Roberts
simple night sky
Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques. Honor Harger
simple artist people
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love. Igor Stravinsky
simple brain enough
If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. Ian Stewart
simple expression comfort
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots. Iain Banks
simple complicated made
All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself. Hugh Prather
simple simplicity quality
The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.
simple risk trying
It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
simple self mind-your-own-business
All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust. Howell Raines
simple men simplicity
I am a simple man and I want simple answers. Howard Aiken
simple thinking malfunction
Just keep it simple. When you over-think what you're wearing, that's when wardrobe malfunctions tend to happen. Guy Berryman
simple practice important
One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be. Guy Finley
simple words-of-wisdom substance
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples. Gottfried Leibniz
simple words-of-wisdom unity
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
simple words-of-wisdom substance
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
simple opposites ideas
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary, reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths, until we come to those which are primary.
simple eyebrows feminism
I am constantly surprised that the simple word 'feminism' raises more eyebrows and initiates more sad-faced head-shaking than any elaborate stream of invective I have ever leveled at either the I.R.S. or the D.M.V ... Gina Barreca
simple magic phrases
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase? Gillian Flynn
simple shopping luxury
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it. Friedrich Nietzsche
simple guitar gigs
Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front. George Benson
simple ideas mind
Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. George Berkeley
simple saving twenties
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. George Bernard Shaw
simple reality firsts
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Galileo Galilei
simple thinking fiction
The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?
simple secret important
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living. Erich Maria Remarque
simple love-is thinking
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult. Erich Fromm
simple actors television
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple. Erica Jong
simple hunger eating
Eating is never so simple as hunger.
simple phones cells
While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car. Pull over to the side of the road to dial manually, know the features and functions of your phone before you drive and allow voice mail to pick up your calls if you are driving - these are all simple and commonsensical steps we can all take to minimize distraction from in-car cell phone use. Gary Shapiro
simple guy buffets
I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets. Gabriel Iglesias
simple men voice
When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple. Christine Feehan
simple
I keep things pretty simple. Chris Isaak
simple men thinking
One young man asked me a simple question that gets to the core of what we`re talking about. He said, do you think the police would ever treat you the way they treat me? And the answer is, no. And that is wrong. And that has to change in this city. Chris Hayes