Simple Quotes - page 5

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success... View quote
Dean Acheson
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people... View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. View quote
André Maurois
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. View quote
Rebecca West
The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two. View quote
Robert Fogel
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. View quote
Margaret Drabble
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived. View quote
Michael Jackson
In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on. (John Searle)
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Witchcraft to the ignorant,.... Simple science to the learned. View quote
Leigh Brackett
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. View quote
Joyce Brothers
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. View quote
Bertrand Russell
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. View quote
Stephen King
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. View quote
Edward de Bono
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great. (James Russell Lowell)
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. View quote
William Wordsworth
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. View quote
William Wordsworth
A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death. View quote
William Wordsworth
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. View quote
Will Rogers