Simple Quotes - page 11

If I have learned anything as a scientist it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do. (Ivar Giaever)
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple. View quote
Richard Branson
Big ideas are usually simple ideas. View quote
David Ogilvy
A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple! View quote
Catherine Doherty
The problem with general relativity is that the principles are pretty simple and the computations are always ugly. View quote
Leonard Susskind
The simple point which I am concerned to make is that where ultimate values are irreconcilable, clear-cut solutions cannot, in principle, be found. To decide rationally in such situations is to decide in the light of general ideals, the overall pattern of life pursued by a man or a group or a society. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint. View quote
Edward James Olmos
... To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. ... View quote
Arundhati Roy
The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale. (Helen Hayes)
I believe in "intelligence," and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it-an I. Q. or the like. View quote
Peter Medawar
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. View quote
Alice Walker
Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh... it's as simple as that. View quote
Jay Leno
Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
He liked her; it was as simple as that. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf. (Nicholas Sparks)
We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening. View quote
John Kerry
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought. View quote
André Maurois
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. View quote
Paul Farmer
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold