Simple Quotes

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret Mead

Women, Children, Educated

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.
Jackie Kennedy

Marriage, Death, Important

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

Beauty, Stand, Facts

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

Everyone, Fact, Guilty

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
Chuck Palahniuk

Someone, Boring, Away

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Richard Dawkins

Nature, Difficult, Complex

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust

Saying, Incapable

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. Gardner

Political, Two, Conviction

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand

Beautiful, Selfish, Person

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
Johan Cruijff

Play, Difficult, Soccer

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge

Direct, Requires

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot

Words, Made, Language

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot

Wisdom, Human, Helpful

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Life, Real, After

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams

Everything, Here, Ignorant

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Abraham Cahan

Anger, Humble, Control

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
Paul McCartney

Down, Write, Actually

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin

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

Respect, Drunk, Lost

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Charles Lindbergh

Life, God, Made

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice Walker

Mothers, Ourselves, Seems

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someone, Else, Happens

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
Mark Zuckerberg

Business, Progress, Actually

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.
LL Cool J

Love, Pretty, Away

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
Barbra Streisand

Beautiful, Selfish, Lazy

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Old, Whole, Used

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia Woolf

Woman, Manly, Pure

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
William Shatner

Young, Blood, Handsome

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Doris Lessing

Thought, Perfect, Prayer

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing

Success, Best, May

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