Simply Quotes

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

Food simply isn't important to me.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

I don't expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that's not in either economy's interest.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.