Made Simple Quotes

#1. Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

Marina Warner

#2. We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.

Patrick Carman

#3. Complex ideas must be made simple, or they'll remain ideas and never be put into action.

Nathaniel Fick

#4. My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

Bono

#5. Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

Charles R. Swindoll

#6. What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done.

Stephen Bungay

#7. By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

Woody Allen

#8. I was thinking of how, when we think of loss in our life, how our sense of 'home' was the first thing to go. You know, we lose that place of childhood innocence, of feeling protected. And so many of us spend the rest of our lives trying to reclaim that place called home, that life made simple again.

Tabitha Vohn

#9. Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

Jason Reitman

#11. The Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for each other. If the love was not there in the beginning, but only the need, such gifts made love grow.

Dorothy Day

#13. There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.

D.J. MacHale

#14. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

David Allen

#15. Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.

Satya Nadella

#16. And for the first time he understood. What temptation meant. It stood before him, made flesh and wit and intellect and desire, making its simple offer of everything, unstoppable and consuming for all it's unconditional generosity.

Olivia Gates

#17. I like well-made clothes, and I don't mind spending a lot of money on something that looks super, super simple. I don't like knockoffs.

Micah Lexier

#18. It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.

Robert Jordan

#19. He painted a rosy picture of prewar Germany in contrast to its current "disgrace and defeat."8 He made complicated things simple. "Political agitation must be primitive," he said.9

Peter Ross Range

#20. When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

Dylan Moran

#21. She looked from her son to Bill and back to her son again, touched by wonder that was mostly simple perplexity but partly a fear so thin and sharp that it found its way deep into her inner heart and vibrated there like a tuning-fork made of clear ice.

Stephen King

#22. The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

John Allen Paulos

#23. The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.

Alfred Sisley

#24. Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

Alfred Marshall

#25. Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

Arthur C. Clarke

#26. Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.

Barry S. Strauss

#27. Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

Mark Skousen

#28. That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction.

Ayn Rand

#29. To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental ... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

Helmut Lang

#30. So far as he was concerned, this had been a bang-up night. Dynamite, a nice brawl, free brandy, and getting to scare the piss out of someone. It was the simple things that made his life worth living.

Brandon Sanderson

#31. The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.

Denton Cooley

#32. The one thing that astonished him now was that he should have stood for five minutes arguing with her across the width of the room, when just touching her made everything so simple.

Edith Wharton

#33. But big people's illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

Khushwant Singh

#34. She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people ...

Nicholas Sparks

#35. A tinker's debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade. Twice for freely-given aid. Thrice for any insult made.

Patrick Rothfuss

#36. When I got discharged from the Army, I made a vow never to go back on an Army post. No big deal, just a simple lifelong vow.

William Goldman

#37. I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

Campbell Scott

#38. Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy

Jack Kerouac

#39. Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

Gregory Skovoroda

#40. Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being:
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never sought to ask, I never knew:
But, in my simple ignorance suppose
The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances, made them more than story, greater than the sums of their parts. But that requires time. The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Erin Morgenstern

#42. Science has proven that subatomic particles can exist in two places at once. Since we are all made up of these particles, then this simple fact should drastically re-define every limitation that you think you have.

Gary Hopkins

#43. It surprised me because she put it as well (or better) than I could have and made a simple point she didn't even intend: being disabled wasn't the main thing about her.

Cammie McGovern

#44. We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Cynthia Rylant

#45. I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

Mike Vallely

#46. Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

Jean Dujardin

#47. When the BCS started, a decision was made collectively, as coaches, that the BCS champion would receive our championship and our trophy. It's as simple as that.

Grant Teaff

#48. In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself ... the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

Percy Lubbock

#49. It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame and dirt.

Betty Smith

#50. But I think the Court again heard clearly the simple theme that ennobles our Constitution: that no one shall be made to feel uncomfortable or unsafe because of nonconformity.

E.B. White

#51. 24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel! How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#52. The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

Gina McKee

#53. But what ultimately made Yates the scourge of copy editors was his simple aversion to criticism; any emendation in his manuscript, be it a single semicolon, would cause dark alcoholic brooding, which would finally erupt in long, hectoring, semicoherent phone calls.

Blake Bailey

#54. There is no attempt made by these simple and honest men, the father and son, to pretend that the dead woman was anything greatly other than she was; their respect is for death, and for the human weakness and mystery which it must finally cover.

G.K. Chesterton

#55. I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

Georg Baselitz

#56. Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Rob Pike

#57. I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made ... This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.

Arthur C. Clarke

#58. The barrenness of sand, as it is usually pictured, was not caused by simple dryness, but apparently was due to the ceaseless movement that made it inhospitable to all living things. What a difference compared with the dreary way human beings clung together year in year out.

Kobo Abe

#59. One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.

Dan Fogelberg

#60. Bill O'Reilly calls his tv show the "No Spin Zone" but the man is practically a whirling dervish. He combines willful ignorance with a simple child-like faith in the system that, not coincidentally, has made him a millionaire.

Earl Lee

#61. The voices started up again, but they couldn't stop her now. The waiting was over. There was no turning back, and that simple fact made it easier to go forward. The

V.E Schwab

#62. She gathered some brown seaweed and made a flat damp poultice of it, and this she applied to the baby's swollen shoulder, which was as good a remedy as any and probably better than the doctor could have done. But the remedy lacked his authority because it was simple and didn't cost anything.

John Steinbeck

#63. Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

Wayne Muller

#64. THE FIRST SECRET of self-made millionaires is simple: Dream Big Dreams!

Brian Tracy

#65. the future is not so fragile as to be broken by a simple decision. The future is made of decisions.

Joseph R. Lallo

#66. When I started Amos Content Group in 2009, I made a simple bet: our handmade, contextual, and authentic content will stand out in an increasingly information-saturated world.

Shawn Amos

#67. Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems.

Anthony Of Padua

#68. She was just a sad girl who liked to write songs. And I was nothing more than a simple guy who was lucky enough to have made her fall in love with him.

Aly Martinez

#69. Reconciling love and principle was never simple. All he could say was that standing here today, love had served him greatest, and he didn't regret having made his choices out of love.

Addison Lane

#70. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

Ian McEwan

#71. The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

George Eliot

#72. It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

William Jackson

#73. There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations.
There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

Andre-Marie Ampere

#74. Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?

Jodi Picoult

#75. How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!

Orville Dewey

#76. A man just can't earn a living wage selling Smurfpecker in this blighted nation. I have to tell you, heroin dealers and meth slingers have made your country a wretched place to be a simple, honest drug dealer who wants to give his customers a lovingly curated experience. Tom

Joe Hill

#77. Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

Thom Browne

#78. About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.

Charles Lindbergh

#79. Riley made a simple but telling observation about both feminist and nonfeminist rape deniers. "They are all talking about sex and promiscuity," she said. But, she observed, "Rape is not about sex at all.

Jody Raphael

#80. She was the only one who made him hear music. The only one who made him feel home. The only one who wanted nothing more than for him to be plain, simple Will Truitt.

Jamie Farrell

#81. No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Thomas Vernor Smith

#82. Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

Bill Shankly

#83. Bend like a willow. You made it sound so simple."
"It was simple."
"Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences.

Rachel Hartman

#84. When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

W.S. Gilbert

#85. So many people get deals, so many YouTubers get scripts and things made because they're constantly creating things on their own. Even if it's really cheap and it's really simple, if it's just good in itself then that's all that matters.

Charlyne Yi

#86. If you cannot defeat him and take his power, then you must kill him.
Apollo made it all sound so simple, like he was asking me to go to the store and pick up Crunchy Cheetos and if they didn't have them in stock, to get Cheetos Puffs. Insane.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#87. The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

Eugenio Montale

#88. Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.

Christopher Marlowe

#89. One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

Richard Russo

#90. That's why, his mom said, they made fun of him in the first place. "They're just jealous," she said. But Colin knew better. They weren't jealous. He just wasn't likeable. Sometimes it's that simple.

John Green

#91. I started meeting the right people, like [producer] Dave [Okumu], who explained to me how songwriting is really simple - "just like shitting," he said. "You gotta let it all out." When he put it like that, however disgusting it is, it made a lot of sense to me.

Jessie Ware

#92. Concerning mistakes, follow three simple rules. Firstly, correct a mistake that you made whenever it is possible. Secondly, don't repeat the same mistakes. Thirdly, learn from past mistakes.

Eraldo Banovac

#93. My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

Dorothy Dunnett

#94. Ever since Obama's election team and media thugs made me famous for asking a simple question in 2008, I've had more than my share of death threats by people who are by definition at least a little crazy.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#95. When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Walter Lippmann

#96. The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.

Tom Hodgkinson

#97. I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.

Joe Armstrong

#98. He let the fingers of one hand splay out across the pocket of his shirt to show what a simple, physical thing the heart was; then he made the same hand into a fist.

Richard Yates

#99. There is no school of thought that can save us from the simple fact that hard decisions are best made by good people, and that the best people can only be shaped by hard experience.

Eric Greitens

#100. In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible.

Elizabeth Goudge