Oversimplifications Quotes

#1. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#2. All theories are oversimplifications, or at least lead to oversimplification.

Neil Postman

#3. People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.

Benjamin Walker

#4. I like the concept of the penny plan - not for the military because the military we have to build up. But we can save probably in many case more than a penny if you look at it. I mean, the penny plan is a pretty good plan, and it's a pretty simple plan.

Donald Trump

#5. Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#6. Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

Anurag Kashyap

#7. Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.

Nicholas Young

#8. Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here
every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.

Veronica Roth

#9. The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Donald E. Graham

#10. What truly captivated Rachael were her eyes - wide, deer-like, yet hauntingly sinister green with flecks of gold dancing in silent mirth.

Deidre Huesmann

#11. Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.

Gloria Reuben

#12. Because I knew so much about him, because I had been close to him, I couldn't bring the various fragments of my experience with him into a single coherent image. The truth was mobile and contradictory, and I was willing to live with that.

Siri Hustvedt

#13. A boy's best friend is his mother.

Robert Bloch

#14. The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.

Philip Schultz

#15. Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

John Updike

#16. To meet her fate beneath the rowan trees in the hills near

Diana Gabaldon