Simple Quotes - Page 12

• Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sometimes, Truth Is

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• That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"

  Dave Barry

  Boys, Pet, Doe

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

  Charles Bukowski

  Artist, Way, Difficult

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• The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Suffering, Desire, Quests

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• There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

  Beatrice Warde

  Wise, Men, Discipline

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• Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that it is so simple. Any person with a knowledge of the basic game can easily learn any form of it.

  Albert H. Morehead

  Games, Facts, United States

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• It takes a long time to make it simple.

  David Hockney

  Long, Long Time

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• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Writing, Plain Language

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.65, Chartwell

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• I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Years, People

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• Leadership is simple: Add value to people everyday.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  People, Everyday, Add

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• The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love Is, Giving, Want

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• Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

  Alfred Marshall

  Book, Doctrine, Topics

  Alfred Marshall (2015). “The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867–1890”, p.82, Springer

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• Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

  Alfie Kohn

  Team, Player, Demand

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• How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Mirrors, Simple Life, Forgotten

  Daphne Du Maurier, Daphne Du Maurier (Dame) (1942). “Frenchman's creek”, Sourcebooks Landmark

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• Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Patterns, Morality

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Fall, Apples

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• Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or choosing to come out and be openly gay. Black readers find a relevance to their lives growing up in America as a black guy. Picked-on brainy kids find a metaphor for being an outsider. It's a simple enough, and direct enough metaphor that it has different shades for different people. And so each reader to some degree gets out of it what they bring to it. That's one of the things I think that makes *X-Men* such a strong property.

  Tom Brevoort

  Strong, Growing Up, Kids

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• If only I had known a year ago what I'd be facing now. Until last year I lived with the innocent arrogance that my life was a simple product of effort, will, and design. But now I am a house of cards, held precariously by the fragile conspiracy of wind, weight, and angle. Perhaps it is best we cannot see into our futures.

  Martha Manning

  Years, Wind, House Of Cards

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• I don't think the question is if should we have a shield law. I think the question is what kind of shield law we should have. Yes, I'd like to see a federal shield law, but if and only if it provides genuine safeguards and doesn't green-light prosecutors and judges and litigants from going after the press and getting things to which they should not be entitled. It's not a simple kind of litmus test.

  Ted Gup

  Thinking, Law, Ifs And

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is more and more unfathomable and uncomfortable - nothing's ever simple or neatly resolved. You're left with a mystery.

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, People, Needs

  "Martin Scorsese channels his inner film critic on ‘The Searchers’" by Guy Lodge, uproxx.com. March 8, 2013.

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• I take the palette with me, but I have a lot of makeup. I was a makeup artist when I was younger, but I'm not that good compared with my makeup artist, so I keep things pretty simple. I explore a lot with pink and nude lipsticks, but I love red lipsticks. I love a line and a lash and a brow. So I don't need a lot, but I have a lot. It's all there just in case - for Halloween or whatever.

  Gwen Stefani

  Halloween, Artist, Makeup

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

  Peter Kreeft

  Achievement, Insane, Ordinary

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• At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point.

  Nhat Hanh

  Stress, Silly, Littles

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.66, Buddhist Publication Society

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• One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they're so diffuse, it's difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing is making it a law (like it is in Israel and Cyprus) to take every building eight stories or under and heat all of the water in those buildings with solar energy. It's absolutely simple and cheap technology.

  Alan Weisman

  Thinking, Technology, Eight

  Source: www.today.com

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