Simple Quotes - page 44

It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the ‘rock' bottom of the cosmos – the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness – from spirit to matter – from the highest high to the lowest low. (Lon Milo DuQuette)
Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. View quote
Dave Mustaine
To contribute usefully to the advance of science, one must sometimes not disdain from undertaking simple verifications. View quote
Léon Foucault
War is the remedy our enemies have chosen. Other simple remedies were within their choice. You know it and they know it, but they wanted war, and I say let us give them all they want; not a word of argument, not a sign of let up, no cave in till we are whipped or they are. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar. View quote
Keith Richards
When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels. View quote
Philip Pullman
People are too complicated to have simple labels. View quote
Philip Pullman
But whathappened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish. View quote
Ian McEwan
It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. View quote
Ian McEwan
If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up. (Ian McEwan)
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like. View quote
Aaron Klug
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. View quote
Philip Warren Anderson
The behavior of large and complex aggregates of elementary particles, it turns out, is not to be understood in terms of a simple extrapolation of a few particles. Instead, at each level of complexity entirely new properties appear, and the understanding of the new behaviors requires research which I think is as fundamental in its nature as any other. View quote
Philip Warren Anderson
It's customary, at times like this, to say a few words. A man shouldn't die with no understanding of why he's been murdered. I do not pride myself on my eloquence, and so I will keep this simple. View quote
Matthew Stover
Fairy tales--simple stories for simple minds, a breath of air to cool brows overheated by the complexities of real life. View quote
Matthew Stover
There are so many forms of puppets. The ones on 'Sesame Street' are probably the most simple that we do. View quote
Jim Henson
Simple is good. View quote
Jim Henson
This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative. View quote
Edward Sapir
Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter. (Max Barry)
Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband. View quote
David Cameron
When we have negotiated that new settlement, we will give the British people a referendum with a very simple in-or-out choice to stay in the EU on these new terms; or come out altogether. It will be an in/out referendum. View quote
David Cameron
I think I've gone through quite an ordinary series of steps in life. I began as most children began, with God and Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny all being about the same thing. Then I went through the things that I think sensitive people go through, wrestling with the thoughts of Jesus-did he shit? Did he screw? I began to dare to believe that God wasn't some white beard. I began to look upon the miseries of the human race and to think God was not as simple as my mother said. As nearly as I can concentrate on the question today, I believe I am God; certainly you are, I think we intelligent beings on this planet are all a piece of God, are becoming God. In some sort of cyclical non-time thing we have to become God, so that we can end up creating ourselves, so that we can be in the first place. ... My own feeling is that relation to God as a person is a petty, superstitious approach to the All, the infinite. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
I'm against these aggressive tax avoidance schemes but I'm not just against them, this Government has taken a huge amount of steps to legislate and toughen the laws and go after aggressive tax avoidance schemes for the very simple reason that if people go after these schemes and aggressively avoid tax they're making it the case that everyone else has to pay higher taxes as a result so I think we should be very clear, tax evasion is illegal and for that you can be prosecuted, you can go to prison for tax evasion. Tax avoidance is in these cases, very aggressive tax avoidance schemes, they are wrong and we should really persuade not to do them and that's why we have these court cases where the court looks at whether a scheme is really about avoiding tax rather than anything else and the court was very clear in this case. View quote
David Cameron