Simple Quotes

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

I see people detained for simple INS violations.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!

A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

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.

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.