Simple Quotes - page 9

Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don't want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad? (Oscar Niemeyer)
In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves. View quote
James Frey
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses? View quote
Moby
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. View quote
Alfred Adler
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. View quote
Freeman Dyson
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. (Paul Bloom)
The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. View quote
Jonathan Ive
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. View quote
Helen Suzman
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
You are very familiar with western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple - sometimes naïve. Understand, or not? View quote
Jiang Zemin
When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, "All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed" ... So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends. View quote
Sol LeWitt
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple. View quote
Sol LeWitt
The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark. View quote
Carl David Anderson
Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football. (Johan Cruyff)
Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically. View quote
Steven Weinberg
But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing-a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand. View quote
George Smoot