Simply Quotes

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.

Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous pre-season training - something I've not previously experienced. And I knocked local football on the head this winter, simply to ensure I didn't pick up any injuries.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.