Simply Quotes

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact that I didn't want to do anything science-related, and I wanted to write comedy plays and act little bit - I mean, I became deeply interesting in college because of how rare that was.

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.