Simple Quotes - page 21

Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't. (Rick Riordan)
I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "But... you did something nice. Why?" He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed? View quote
Rick Riordan
Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. "Keep it simple. View quote
Rick Riordan
Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before-just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it. View quote
Rick Riordan
I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy. View quote
Andrew Weil
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy. View quote
Richard Yates
In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple. View quote
Richard Preston
But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape. View quote
Rob Sheffield
One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions. View quote
Robert Shea
The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real. View quote
Simon Pegg
Books! Real books were Joneny's delight. Heavy, cumbersome, difficult to store, they were the bane of most scholars. Joneny found them entrancing. He didn't care what was in them. Any book today was so old that each word glittered to him like the facet of a lost gem. The whole conception of a book was so at odds with this compressed, crowded, breakneck era that he was put into ecstasy by the simple heft of the paper. His own collection, some seventy volumes, was considered a pretentious luxury by everyone at the University. (Samuel R. Delany)
To speak the unspeakable without the proper rhetorical flourish or introduction; to muff that flourish, either by accident, misjudgment, or simple ignorance; to choose the wrong flourish or not choose any (i.e., to choose the flourish called "the literal") is to perform the unspeakable. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved. View quote
Scott Cunningham
Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told. View quote
William Goldman
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far. View quote
William Landay
In a special operations mission, the concept of speed is simple. Get to your objective as fast as possible. Any delay will expand your area of vulnerability. View quote
William H. McRaven
I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple. View quote
Walter Mischel
I am not a multimillionaire. I dont own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple. View quote
Ferran Adria
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political. (Fred Hampton)
Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick. View quote
Charlaine Harris
The best movies are simple. View quote
Shia LaBeouf