Simple Quotes

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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or… — Charles Babbage
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. — Michelle Bachelet
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary… — Lord Acton
I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. — Amy Adams
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than… — Honore de Balzac
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. — Dave Barry
Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing… — Roseanne Barr
Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious.… — Dave Barry
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I… — John Adams
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand,… — Clara Barton
If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to… — Melissa Bean
After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula… — Valerie Bertinelli
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of… — Pope Benedict XVI
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. — Warren G. Bennis
Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in… — Ezra Taft Benson
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his… — Alfred Adler
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because… — John Desmond Bernal

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