Top 100 Simple But Quotes
#1. Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.
Paulo Coelho
#2. Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.
Mother Teresa
#3. I'm sort of a carb-oholic. I love pasta, and I know it's really simple, but I love pasta with olive oil and crushed red pepper and maybe some Parmesan. I don't really eat cheese anymore, but that would be my favorite. I love a tri colore salad - it's my favorite.
Judy Greer
#5. We had everything we needed. None of it was big. Most of it was simple. But what I knew in that moment was that the size of your home, your car, your wallet, doesn't have one single thing to
Mia Sheridan
#6. His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
Oscar Wilde
#7. I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients. It will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully.
James Stewart
#8. Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.
Rudy Rucker
#9. Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.
Julian Baggini
#11. As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.
Alexa Von Tobel
#12. I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.
Carmen Ejogo
#13. If there's one overarching theme in "Guys Read", it's the simple but important message: "read what you like, when you like, whatever that happens to be.
School Library Journal
#14. Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.
H.L. Mencken
#15. The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
Criss Jami
#16. We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern is simple but not easy to follow. We are so easily distracted.
Henry B. Eyring
#17. The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.
Jai Courtney
#18. My approach to jewelry has always been to keep it very simple, but if you want to wear something, make sure it is exquisite and lovely and will stand out.
Sophie Cookson
#19. I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.
John Fogerty
#20. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
#21. At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.
Danny Meyer
#22. The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
Albert Einstein
#24. I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.
John Barth
#25. If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.
Oprah Winfrey
#26. I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.
Moby
#27. One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
Kin Hubbard
#28. No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.
F.K. Preston
#29. Paduk and all the rest wrote on steadily, but Krug's failure was complete, a baffling and hideous disaster, for he had been busy becoming an elderly man instead of learning the simple but now unobtainable passages which they, mere boys, had memorized.
Vladimir Nabokov
#30. Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.
Harry Golden
#31. For a child, being a child comes naturally. It is
relatively simple. But for an adult to become a father, it is quite another story.
Anupam Sibal
#32. I like 'Notting Hill.' If you can do a movie that's simple, but do it well, there's room for that.
Chris Evans
#33. But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible ...
Lemony Snicket
#34. One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do not touch everywhere. The bumpiness at all scales prevents that. Even in rock under enormous pressure, at some sufficiently small scale it becomes clear that gaps remain, allowing fluid to flow.
James Gleick
#35. It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert Menzies
#37. Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.
George E.P. Box
#38. I M Simple but I Do Anything in World
Valmik
#39. Our wants were simple, but they could not have been more complicated.
Susan Abulhawa
#40. It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.
Tony Bennett
#41. This simple but hidden action
Ted Hunt
#42. The criticism is that it's too simple, but my feeling is it's more of a challenge making someone feel an emotion in four notes than in 25 notes.
Kenny G
#44. My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
Olivia Holt
#45. It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.
Melissa Bank
#48. Truth is simple but difficult to explain ...
Loving is easy but difficult to express.
Hussain Rasheed
#49. If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.
Herschel Walker
#50. My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.
Andy Garcia
#51. Knowing your purpose on earth is simple, but the task here is to bring about the success of your destiny.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#52. I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive.
David W. Earle
#53. The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#54. What I'm trying to say is that it will be okay between you and Nate. Because you both want that. Because you both want that more than anything. It sounds simple, but I'm learning that the problems start when you want different things
Laura Dave
#55. Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.
Johan Cruijff
#56. Love is free, but priceless.
Wisdom is precious, but costless.
Faith is gentle, but fearless.
Joy is scarce, but limitless.
Truth is simple, but matchless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#57. It's an open horizon before us, as far as the eye can see: no angst and no games, just mutual delight. So simple, but so rich. Like chocolate. Not a gold-dusted truffle or a foofy pastry tower teetering on a crystal platter, but a plain, honest bar of the best chocolate in the world.
Laini Taylor
#58. Here is the simple but powerful rule ... always give people more than they expect to get.
Nelson Boswell
#59. Wisdom is simple but profound.
Folly, even when complex, is stupid.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. Happy new year we tell each other every year, contains a simple but significant message: Try to be happier and don't care to your problems too much.
Hamid Karima
#61. Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and narrow-mindedness. When reason as such becomes suspect, then faith itself becomes falsified.
Pope Benedict XVI
#62. Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.
Scarlett Johansson
#63. Islam is simple, but being a Muslim in a modern world is not. Everyday is a battle that each of us have to face. It is easy to get swept away and lose one's identity. The constant struggle is to find out who we are and how to remain steadfast.
Norhafsah Hamid
#64. So one way of looking at our trillion-celled bodies is that they are protein machines, although, as you know, I think we are more than machines! It sounds simple, but it isn't. For one thing, it takes over 100,000 different types of proteins to run our bodies. Let
Bruce H. Lipton
#65. It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.
Criss Jami
#66. Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I'm a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter what, can give you the confidence you need when you feel like you've got nothing to offer.
Reese Witherspoon
#69. The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.
Amartya Sen
#71. Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.
Myron Scholes
#72. What will allow you to enter the world of great relationships is living in accord with the simple but powerful Laws of Love.
Chris Prentiss
#73. These stark divides prompt a simple but fundamental question: why can't White Christian America understand how African Americans feel about the black men who have died at the hands of white police officers? To
Robert P. Jones
#74. Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.
Paul Zollo
#75. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
#76. His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not.
(on David Beckham)
Graham Taylor
#77. No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.
Ross Douthat
#78. There is a simple but powerful African prayer that can be recited to remind you of this: Let us take care of our children, for they have a long way to go. Let us take care of our elders, for they have come a long way. Let us take care of those
Yana Cortlund
#79. My advice to aspriring models is less is more, try not to do crazy hair and makeup, keep it simple but beautiful when you're trying to find an agency and get started.
Liris Crosse
#80. I love Courtney Lee. He's a very good player. I know that sounds very simple, but it's true. He does things well. He's a good defender, a great team defender, and he shoots the ball very well.
Doc Rivers
#81. A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
Zedd
#83. To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson
#84. And there was nothing left between them but love, neither pure nor simple, but love it was.
Anne Stuart
#85. Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.
Sargent Shriver
#86. Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.
Tanya Tucker
#87. Simple but very profound truth, How can you let God down when you weren't ever holding Him up?
Lysa TerKeurst
#88. There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.
Gary Hamel
#89. If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences that accompanied that choice. And it gave me the simple but powerful satisfaction of extending a kindness to another person in a tough spot.
Piper Kerman
#90. With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.
Tom Wopat
#91. I M Simple But I Can Do Anything In World
Valmik
#92. Pretend you're good at it." It seemed too simple, but it was all I had so I scrawled the words on my arm and repeated it as a mantra.
Jenny Lawson
#93. Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.
Patrick Geddes
#94. They have the idea that non-commutative algebra should remind one of commutative algebra, but the former is more sophisticated. I believe that non-commutative algebra is just as simple, but it is different.
Israel Gelfand
#95. In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#96. I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.
Lisa Loeb
#97. The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object , not the problem of a faculty . People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.
Erich Fromm
#98. Writing is a simple but elusive art," he said. "To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.
Josh Farrar
#99. This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#100. Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
