Nothing's Ever Simple Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

Kate Winslet

#3. Nothing's ever simple. I just don't want you to ignore possibilities out of fear. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith, believing that somebody's going to catch you.

Nadia Lee

#4. Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn't Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best.
Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.

Ilona Andrews

#5. One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.

Devon Michael

#7. The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.

Amit Ray

#8. I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.

Chris Carmack

#9. Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

Christy Hall

#10. Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

Jonathan Carroll

#11. Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other times doing this is not very beneficial because insulin is a storage hormone and it's going to shunt everything into the muscle.

Dorian Yates

#12. Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

Vernon Howard

#13. LOVE MAKES EVERYTHING SIMPLE WHEN IT STARTS BUT BY THE END IT COMPLICATES EVERYTHING.

Hansrajvir

#14. A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a normal person, very sensitive, very caring about those around me.

Justine Henin

#15. All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

Margaret Fuller

#16. Let us simplify our lives a little, let us make the changes necessary to focus on the simple, humble path of Christian
discipleship.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#17. I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.Someone, from the bottom of my heart ... Straightforward, unwavering ... It seems like such a simple thing, so then why ... Must it be so incredibly hard?

Ai Yazawa

#18. Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

Scott Adams

#19. Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having.

T.H. White

#20. Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane ... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Billy Graham

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I find that hard to believe. Nothing comes free in this world. Ever. (Sin)
Then get up and get dressed. There's the door. I'm sure you know how to use it. It's a really simple process. You put one foot in front of the other, turn the knob, and keep going. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

M.H. Boroson

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

Marilyn French

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

L.J.Smith

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

Sue Grafton

#30. My anthropological back gets raised hackles with simple worlds and simple conflicts. Nothing's simple. Nothing ever was.

Steven Erikson

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

Phil Crosby

#32. Nothing was ever easy or simple, not one blasted thing.

Jackie Merritt

#33. 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

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

Arthur Golden

#35. 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

#36. At that moment it was clearer to me than ever that a thousand books on the art of loving add nothing to a simple kiss, nor a thousand speeches on love to a single affectionate gesture.

A.G. Roemmers

#37. 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

#38. The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

Eric Butterworth

#39. Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

Arthur Miller

#40. Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

Donald Altman

#41. You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a hen. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple.

Douglas Adams

#42. Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple, including gift buying. A jaunt to the local mall or a day in front of the TV watching QVC can be just enough for all the loved ones on your list.

Jenna Morasca

#43. A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth.

Matt Corby

#44. often thought that the simple fact, the mechanical fact, is no closer to the truth than a vague feeling, rumor, vision. Why repeat the facts - they cover up our feelings.

Svetlana Alexievich

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

Carlene O'Connor

#46. Among the cognoscenti, though, it is not just about elaborate new flavors. I always consider the main test of ice cream to be the simple ice creams, especially vanilla. One should have fun when one eats, but it should also be seriously good.

Jeffrey Steingarten

#47. In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.

Bryant McGill

#48. You can give your message to anybody, to everybody, from anywhere, from everywhere, in every way possible. The only thing you have to consider is this: Let your message be simple and understandable!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Dan Mathews

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

Abraham Cahan

#51. I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

Rokia Traore

#52. Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

Hanif Kureishi

#53. Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

Albert Collins

#54. I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. It's not magic. This, this is simple biology.

C.M. Stunich

#55. We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.

John Cage

#56. What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

Paulo Coelho

#57. These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.

Frederick Lenz

#58. From Love Under a Dark Sky:
In the universe vast
We share a simple feast
Among creatures equally earthbound.
Let us raise our hearts in gratitude,
Our eyes in expectation
Of a greater supper yet
In heavenly realms.

Shellie Foltz

#59. It's amazing how much power a simple false phrase repeated can have.

Kinley MacGregor

#60. We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life - just simple things.

Priscilla Chan

#61. It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Isadora Duncan

#62. This is because the caress is not a simple stroking; it is a shaping.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#63. The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Iain McGilchrist

#64. Don't know why folks need diamonds and pearls, fur coats, first-class tickets, island adventures when simple shit like this is the best thing you could ever do.

Kristen Ashley

#65. In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

Paul Tsongas

#66. I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.

Jennifer Morrison

#67. I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup.

Shilpa Shetty

#68. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

Anne Lamott

#69. I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Eddie Marsan

#70. Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

William Morris

#71. Amber leaned into Gavin. Could it be that simple? Could love be the glue that keeps us on the path of righteousness?

"Love is always the answer.

Catherine Bybee

#72. To receive this incredible gift all you have to do is follow four simple steps: 1) desire it; 2) know it; 3) grow in its virtue; 4) live it.

Joseph Iannuzzi