Simply Quotes

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.