Simple Quotes - page 3

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck. (Joseph Heller)
I live a pretty simple life.
Tom Selleck
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Robert Browning
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
Theodore Sturgeon
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.
John Searle
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
I have a simple taste, only the best.
Oscar Wilde
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. (Booker T. Washington)
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
Gustav Klimt
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia Woolf
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
Henri Bergson
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
Salman Rushdie
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Robert Collier
Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant. (Anton Chekhov)
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.
Hannah Arendt
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Jim Horning
I believe that no endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Edward Teller
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
Meister Eckhart