Simple Quotes - page 4

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
When the solution is simple, God is answering. View quote
Albert Einstein
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases. View quote
Nicholas Stern
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. View quote
Joe Chung
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise. View quote
Barbara Jordan
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. View quote
Charles Mingus
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. View quote
Chris Abani
There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life. View quote
Queen Latifah
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. (David Zindell)
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. View quote
James Thurber
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. View quote
Graham Greene
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. View quote
George Eliot
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. View quote
Angelina Jolie
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it. View quote
Colin Powell
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. View quote
Susan Sontag
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is. View quote
Jonathan Ive
A simple maiden in her flower; Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. View quote
John von Neumann
The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. View quote
Michael Moore
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. View quote
Steve Jobs
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy." View quote
Marvin Minsky