Simple Words Quotes

• The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

  Graham Swift

  Art, Clever, Real

  "Triumph of the common man" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

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• Home. It's such a simple word, one I never knew would come to mean as much to me as it has. It once was my dad's house, then my uncle's farm. Mostly it's meant wherever Charlie and I were together. Now, though, it's you. It's your letters, your words. They're the place I go to with my fears, where I find comfort, where I feel safe.

  Kristina McMorris

  Uncles, Dad, Home

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• Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do.

  Kay Hooper

  Simple, Love Is, Easy

  Kay Hooper (2016). “What Dreams May Come”, p.138, Loveswept

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• Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

  Charles Kennedy

  Honesty, Simple, Justice

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• Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: “No!

  Mike Yaconelli

  Tired, Simple, Decisions We Make

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• In more simple words, we might say everything in the universe is trying to become every other thing; and every condition of everything is trying to become every other condition. A hot iron, for example, will strive to become as cool as its environment, and the cool environment will strive to become as hot as the hot iron. They compromise and find an equilibrium between the two, which is neither the one thing nor the other. This conspicuous fact is one of the most characteristic traits of Nature.

  Walter Russell

  Simple, Breathing, Two

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• My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Simple

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• I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Simple, Feelings

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

  Stan Brakhage

  Simple, People, Visionaries

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• ...The only slogan we need in order to be happy in our home is: Love Each Other -three simple words. Apply the ingredients of love. Sacrifice for each other. Make each other happy.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Marriage, Home, Sacrifice

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• When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Simple, Community, World

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

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• The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.

  Hugo Black

  Mean, Simple, Law

  Concurring opinion, Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147, 1959.

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• Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Strong, Simple, Shade

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.234

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• Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.

  Ben Zimmer

  Simple, Style, Phrases

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Kissing, Simple, Two

  "Wonderful, Wonderful Times". Book by Elfriede Jelinek, 1990.

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• I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Passion, Men

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• I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Simple, Games

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

  Tycho Brahe

  Simple, Language, Truth Is

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• Look for ways to be a blessing.
  Simple words of encouragement can brighten somebody’s day.

  Joel Osteen

  Encouragement, Blessing, Simple

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2014

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• CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Jesus, Mean, Heart

  Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”

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• I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection

  Frederic Chopin

  Gratitude, Heart, Simple

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Our very name for God's Creation is NATURE, for that is what Nature is. I shall define Nature for you in simple words. Nature is an electric wave thought image of God's nature, electrically projected from His formless and unconditioned ONE LIGHT into countless many forms of conditioned light which we call matter.

  Walter Russell

  Nature, Simple, Reality

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• Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

  T.S. Mathews

  Communication, Simple, Difficult

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• I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Simple, Earth

  Jorge Luis Borges (2005). “Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness”, Penguin Classics

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• O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting

  Jan Struther

  Simple

  Jan Struther, “London Lovers”

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