Quotes about simple
simple men rights
We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause? Winston Churchill
simple taste
My tastes are simple. I like only the very best. Winston Churchill
simple citizens want
Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state. Winston Churchill
simple mind analogies
The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. Winston Churchill
simple giving people
You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet. Winston Churchill
simple government car
There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars. Will Rogers
simple brain want
We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because they're spending a lot of money. If we can't get a show up and deliver with what we almost intrinsically have in our brains and our pockets, then I don't really want to do it. Will Oldham
simple men people
No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse. W. E. B. Du Bois
simple men oasis
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. W. E. B. Du Bois
simple long swallowing
So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey. W. C. Fields
simple editing secret
The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer. Zadie Smith
simple thinking make-you-think
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. Zaha Hadid
simple important age
Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age. Yul Brynner
simple mind infinite
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course. Zhuangzi
simple breakfast faces
Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast. Zac Posen
simple giving matter
It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters. William Hague
simple acting truthful
Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting. William H. Macy
simple world-love forgiving
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. William Hazlitt
simple men self
I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.... Wendell Berry
simple trying limits
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods. Wendell Berry
simple hunger ecstasy
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. W. Somerset Maugham
simple mind way
Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds. Vladimir Nabokov
simple numbers gentleman
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns. Vladimir Nabokov
simple light hands
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle. Vladimir Nabokov
simple thinking breathing
I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages. Yoko Ono
simple killing used
It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing. Yann Martel
simple games elements
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Yann Martel
simple thinking trying
I think I generally try to buy the best quality and keep it simple. I don't try to make too many decorations, too many things with it. Wolfgang Puck
simple people female
I love Osho. I don't know if you would call him a philosopher; I would just call him a really cool dude. Osho really changed my life. Because the way that he spoke about emotion and the male and female energies in the world and how people react to the world around them, it's so simple, yet it has such a depth. Willow Smith
simple simplicity praying
Pray God, keep us simple. William Makepeace Thackeray
simple feet giving
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! Yevgeny Yevtushenko
simple zidane guy
Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple. Zinedine Zidane
simple edm musical
A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro. Zedd