Top 100 Quotes About Simpler
#1. I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Appolyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the Kingdom of God.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#2. This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#3. Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.
Nathaniel Branden
#4. Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben
#5. than life itself. Then Christ said: 'I will show you a simpler way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.
Paulo Coelho
#6. I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
Linus Pauling
#7. I must demonstrate I'm closer to people - a simpler, calmer presence, yet someone who can also make decisions and obtain promised results.
Francois Hollande
#8. There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.
E. T. Whittaker
#9. Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
Tia Carrere
#10. It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
Lance Armstrong
#11. I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.
Emilie De Ravin
#12. The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
Brent Weeks
#13. The pioneers researched for this book take a simpler approach: Budgets are established only if some forecast is needed to inform an important decision.
Frederic Laloux
#14. Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.
Dean Kamen
#15. Trenton," Nick said patiently, "it is simple: your pizzle, her quim, you both enjoy each other until you can't move. Nothing simpler. You have three children, for pity's sake, need I draw you diagrams?
Grace Burrowes
#16. The simpler the solution, the harder it is to arrive at.
Neal Shusterman
#17. Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.
James S.A. Corey
#18. For Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.
Walter Isaacson
#19. Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.
Raheel Farooq
#20. The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
Max Frisch
#21. Staring out at the sunlit street. It was a whole lot simpler out
Louis L'Amour
#22. The stupidity of one's own colleagues makes life simpler.
Stephen King
#23. Uncomplicated joy and sorrow is not matter for philosophy, but rather for the simpler kinds of poetry and music.
Bertrand Russell
#24. In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.
Elliott Erwitt
#25. When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.
Norman Mailer
#26. Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
Jodi Picoult
#27. This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.
Meghan Daum
#28. Maintaining a close relationship with the Savior is the only goal Paul would set. He wasn't perfect at it, but he singlemindedly pursued it. And he encourages us to do so today. Life is much simpler when we choose to pursue only one thing - the race before us. Don't look back.
Various
#30. Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler."
"I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.
James Thurber
#31. There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
Wanda Jackson
#32. The cake had been done by a lady friend of Mary's. It was simpler than it would have been had she been given more time; but I was finding more and more beauty in simplicity.
Janette Oke
#33. I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#34. We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.
Rhonda Byrne
#35. We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.
Steve Ballmer
#36. It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.
Natalie Portman
#37. She was simpler, less fractured by life during her youth.
Philip Zaleski
#38. Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else's expense.
Jonathan Franzen
#39. The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.
Honore De Balzac
#40. For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.
Robert Lorenz
#41. Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.
Frederick William Robertson
#42. Life would be simpler if only we were all unicorns.
Olley White
#43. It is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
Ernest Hemingway,
#44. We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.
Neil Gaiman
#45. I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
Carl Barks
#46. they have all been taught, possessiveness about our cozy corners and favorite toys isn't limited to cats and dogs. How we wish it were. Wouldn't life be simpler?
Margaret Atwood
#47. Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
Albert Einstein
#48. Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.
Bill Gates
#49. Vadderung grinned. I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.
Jim Butcher
#50. Managing time is an essential part of making life simpler. Time should be valued and treated as the limited resource it is. Through prioritizing and planning, time management becomes an integral part of day to day activities.
Susan Stovall
#51. It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.
Donald Miller
#52. I've come to believe that the simpler the title, the better. Whenever I try to get cute with it, it seems to be a problem but if it's just The 40-Year-Old Virgin, people seem to know what they're in for.
Judd Apatow
#53. .. after reflecting for a few moments, he added, 'I think that everything would be a lot simpler if instead of looking for the Grail or some other relic, people tried to find love. Don't you agree?
Emilio Calderon
#55. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
Steve Buscemi
#56. Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.
Kiki Archer
#57. Like life, revenge can be a messy business... And both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. But the heart has its reasons, of which reason cannot know.
Emily Thorne
#58. It would be altogether simpler if the rugged man before her wore gray, but instead he would be handsomely attired in Union blue.
A.M. Heath
#59. And the reason I am the way I am is that I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is this: You fall down. You get up. That's it. It doesn't get any simpler than that.
Jose Canseco
#60. Dear God,"
"It should be illegal for smug vampires to look that good," Lindsey said, clucking her tongue.
"That is so true," I agreed, thinking a little less hotness would make my relationship with Ethan a lot simpler.
Chloe Neill
#61. The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.
Douglas Adams
#62. The '80s were a much simpler time, mainly because the only superhero movie franchise anyone could complain about was Superman, and the Internet didn't exist so you couldn't even complain about it to too many people - just, like, your mom and maybe your imaginary friend or whatever
Brian Alan Ellis
#63. What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#64. Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
Ang Lee
#65. There's a lot more to say, but in simpler words ... it looks like there might be another adventure in our future.
Embee
#66. You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need.
Sandy Kreps
#67. If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.
Grace Slick
#68. Psychical confidence is the external expression of our internal state of confidence. In simpler terms, it is how confidence looks and sounds.
Sean Stephenson
#69. Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.
Daphne Du Maurier
#70. Men are the inferior sex. Adam was made first, and the first effort is always the simpler and cruder one, non? With the second, one refines.
Loretta Chase
#71. Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
Thomas Huxley
#72. To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.
Aziz Ansari
#73. It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.
Herman Wouk
#74. Plato complains that whereas in simpler matters - like shoe-making - we think only a specially-trained person will serve our purpose, in politics we presume that every one who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state.
Will Durant
#75. The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
Timothy Noah
#76. As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?
Dan Millman
#77. The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.
Eva Green
#78. Would be simpler
if English
and life
were logical
Thanhha Lai
#79. Look at him. But I can't. Too many things are exploding in my head, and the memories are both simpler and more horrible
Lisa Gardner
#80. If life was simpler we wouldn't get lost in it
Clive Barker
#81. However, when you create a model from proxies, it is far simpler for people to game it. This is because proxies are easier to manipulate than the complicated reality they represent.
Cathy O'Neil
#82. An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward De Bono
#83. We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
Freeman Thomas
#84. And how much simpler things would be, how much better for us all, if we had people brave enough to do what was right, instead.
Hugh Howey
#85. Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.
Michael Emerson
#86. If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
Daniel Kahneman
#87. If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
Louis D. Brandeis
#88. Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
Rumi
#89. Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasure of existence.
John Green
#90. We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.
Lindsey Graham
#91. Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
Jack Welch
#92. Life would be a darned sight simpler if feelings were as easy to patch up as a piece of sailcloth.
Harry Haskell
#93. Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.
Matt Ridley
#94. Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.
Stewart Edward White
#95. If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.
Warren Farrell
#96. The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.
Jan Tschichold
#97. I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people.
Philippe Kahn
#98. As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing
less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.
Colin Hay
#99. To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals
and critics of the Women's Movement.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#100. Love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon
it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.
Shulamith Firestone