Simply Quotes
7186 Simply quotes by 3979 unique authors
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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
— Josh Billings
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(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
— Therese of Lisieux
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Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of…
— John Updike
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Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before…
— Walter Hagen
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I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.
— Iggy Pop
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It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the…
— George Washington Carver
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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
— Oscar Wilde
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Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great…
— Marion Jones
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O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I…
— Susan Jeffers
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend…
— John Selden
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and…
— Phillips Brooks
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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around…
— Elbert Hubbard
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it.…
— H. L. Mencken
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Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.
— Robin Sharma
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Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed…
— Harriet Lerner
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When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately…
— Michael J. Fox
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a…
— Henri Nouwen
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Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long…
— Frances M. Young
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
— Renata Adler
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Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman to…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a…
— Tori Amos
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