Nothing Is Ever Simple Quotes

#1. To be young is to be powerless, but to have delusions of power. To believe that one can really change things, make the world better and simpler in good and simple ways. To grow old is to realize that nobody is ever good, nothing is ever simple. That truth is cruel at first, but finally comforting.

Frances Hardinge

#2. Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Marilyn French

#3. Live and everyone would die. Die and everyone would live. It seemed like such a simple choice. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.

Heather Brewer

#4. Fine. Fine. Let's try. You asked why bad things happen to good people. Well, the simple answer is, there are no bad things and there are no good people. Nothing bad ever happens to anyone and people are neither good nor bad. A person is nothing. A person does not exist. There are no people.

Dorothy Gravelle

#5. Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. At the edge of perception, weird things dance and howl.

M.H. Boroson

#6. Nothing that's worth anything is ever simple. That's what makes it worth it

L.J.Smith

#7. The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Sue Grafton

#8. Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

Billy Graham

#9. Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

Phil Crosby

#10. I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

Imogen Poots

#11. Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Arthur Golden

#12. Because some information is better than no information. Life does not give you big, simple answers, Caitlyn. It demands patience, focus, and an open, intelligent mind to gather the pieces of a puzzle and fit them together into a coherent whole. Nothing worth knowing is ever easily learned.

Lisa Cach

#13. You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence.

Scott Neustadter

#14. In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is more and more unfathomable and uncomfortable - nothing's ever simple or neatly resolved. You're left with a mystery.

Martin Scorsese

#15. Not only does my world revolve around her, but she is my world. She's not just my reason for breathing, she's air itself. She's the meaning behind every one of my thoughts, every thrum of my pulse, every whisper of my conscience. She's my entire everything. It's as simple and as complex as that.

Laurelin Paige

#16. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Leo Babauta

#17. Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

Deb Caletti

#18. Paul's lack of concern with the historical Jesus is not due, as some have argued, to his emphasis on Christological rather than historical concerns. It is due to the simple fact that Paul had no idea who the living Jesus was, nor did he care.

Reza Aslan

#19. How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.

Laozi

#20. A life that was surprisingly full, even though it was simple. Or maybe because it was simple.

Carlene O'Connor

#21. I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.

Dan Mathews

#22. Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan