Simply Quotes

I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.