Simple Quotes

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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had… — Maxim Gorky
If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed… — Rush Limbaugh
It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are… — Princess Diana
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish… — Mark Rothko
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the… — Sol LeWitt
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by… — Giorgio Vasari
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness... — George Eliot
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a… — A. E. van Vogt
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that. — Theodore Sturgeon
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system… — Kent Beck
It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I do want someone, need someone. Â You're right. Â And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. Â I feel… — Naomi Campbell
Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them… — Niccolo Machiavelli
For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world. — Mahatma Gandhi
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for… — Rabindranath Tagore
I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used… — Ingrid Newkirk
Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do. — John Cage
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all… — Ezra Taft Benson

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