Simply Quotes
7186 Simply quotes by 3979 unique authors
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The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
— Phillips Brooks
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No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in…
— Billy Graham
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The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and…
— Charles Dickens
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The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand…
— Samuel Ruiz
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Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
— Freeman Dyson
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The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing…
— Al Gore
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Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other…
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a…
— John Hodgman
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I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.
— Dorothy Fields
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There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most…
— Leo Rosten
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...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism.…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no…
— Margaret Mead
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Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes…
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production,…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is…
— Pope Francis
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The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
— Edith Stein
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While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very…
— Adolf Hitler
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Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are…
— Naomi Weisstein
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It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church.
— Peter Canisius
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Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.
— Pope Paul VI
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How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we…
— James Hillman
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The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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