Top 100 Simple Thing Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#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. I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.
Jason Reitman
#8. in simple terms, what you perceive as real, is actually a neurological reconstruction or simulation of the actual real thing. It's not as simple as saying, we see as it is. Actually we do not ever see as it is.
Abhijit Naskar
#9. So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.
Johnny Cash
#10. I didn't know for sure whether Miss Sarah's feelings came from love or guilt. I didn't know whether mine came from love or a need to be safe. She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing.
Sue Monk Kidd
#11. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#12. Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Marcel Proust
#13. I remember when we kissed. I still feel it on my lips. The time you danced with me with no music playing. I remember the simple things. I remember till I cry. But the one thing I wish I'd forget, the memory I wanna forget is goodbye.
Miley Cyrus
#14. When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.
Melody Beattie
#15. A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.
Nelson Mandela
#16. This same system could condemn injustice, but instead it chooses to condemn something as simple and fundamental as the search for the second half. We are all born wanting this. Why does it matter what shape this second half takes, provided it is the thing both sides seek?
Martha Brockenbrough
#17. My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
Olga Kurylenko
#18. My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein
#19. You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.
Richard Adams
#20. His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.
N.R. Walker
#21. The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge
#22. Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.
Johan Cruijff
#23. There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.
Rob Pike
#24. How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.
Charles Baudelaire
#25. I cannot say why, but the simple act of reading it aloud allows you to let go of it. Do not forget this. Believe me, it helps. At first it is a very scary thing to do.
Natalie Goldberg
#27. I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple collage type work. But at home I was beginning to get interested in doing my own thing as well. I'm not sure what inspired this, but I became very interested in decorating things.
Paul Smith
#28. It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
Peter Fonda
#29. In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#30. The worst thing of all was very simple: the disruption of the illusion of safety. That if you were a good person who worked hard and stayed within the law, you'd always be okay.
Edward W. Robertson
#31. Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.
Leo Burnett
#32. We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill ... we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
Esther Forbes
#33. On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It's a very big thing.
Adrian Hodges
#34. I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.
David Longstreth
#35. To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#36. Looking at her nails, Aomame had a strong sense of what a fragile, fleeting thing her own existance was. Something as simple as the shape of her fingernails: it had been decided without her.
Haruki Murakami
#37. The most important thing in the Land of Israel is to build, build, build. Its important that there will be an Israeli presence everywhere. Our principal problem is still Israels leaders unwillingness to say in a simple manner that the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel.
Naftali Bennett
#39. Cure is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?
Lauren DeStefano
#40. People can leave, and then they can come back. It sounds simple, like an obvious thing. But when I realized that, the truth if it seemed important.
Ava Dellaira
#42. Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
Marvin Minsky
#43. A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.
Roy H. Williams
#44. I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong.
Haruki Murakami
#45. The most easy and simple thing to do in world is to say someone I Love You.
And most difficult thing to do is keep on yourself on your these 3 words.
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#46. To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?
Nadine Gordimer
#47. My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
Sean Penn
#48. The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing ... What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.
Roland Allen
#49. I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.
Mark Pellegrino
#50. I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.
Dolly Parton
#51. Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
Alan Cooper
#52. Things that appear to be complicated - and that in fact are complicated - are very simple where motives are concerned. Motive is the root of desire, so to speak. The important thing is to seek out the root. Dig beneath the complicated surface of reality
Haruki Murakami
#53. It was such a simple thing, and yet it broke and fixed my heart all at once.
Suzanne Young
#54. While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
Aimee Bender
#55. The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.
DJ Spooky
#56. Sometimes, saying the first thing that came to mind went well. Sometimes simple and honest worked the best.
Cora Carmack
#57. You can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.
Gary Keller
#58. Another thing to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#59. Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person
Sylvia Plath
#60. The one thing that astonished him now was that he should have stood for five minutes arguing with her across the width of the room, when just touching her made everything so simple.
Edith Wharton
#61. What a wonderfully complex thing! this simple seeming unity - the self!
H.G.Wells
#62. The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.
John Tesh
#63. Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.
Charles Bukowski
#64. The question is not at present, however, of removing mountains, a thing that will one day be simple to us, but of waking and rising from the dead now.
George MacDonald
#65. Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.
Randy Pausch
#66. There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.
Jane Smiley
#67. Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
Ze Frank
#68. The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#69. Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.
Donald Judd
#70. Happiness can be a simple thing just like dreaming of someone you've missed for a long time.
Jhane Barnes
#71. The one thing that fascinated me the most was how a simple hairdo could make people confess their darkest secrets.
Judy DeLuca
#72. It surprised me because she put it as well (or better) than I could have and made a simple point she didn't even intend: being disabled wasn't the main thing about her.
Cammie McGovern
#73. I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
Joanne Harris
#74. [Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.
Jay-Z
#75. From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple - religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior - were partially shaped by who and what your parents were.
Sandra Brown
#76. How many times have answers been so simple and yet someone is determined to take the path of thorns instead of roses?" "It's not earned." "That's a very human thing to say." "An inclination I can't help." "It's not about things that are earned, but just things as they are.
Roshani Chokshi
#77. Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
Terry Pratchett
#78. Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
Florence Nightingale
#79. In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself ... the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.
Percy Lubbock
#80. I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.
Nick Cave
#81. Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
Bear Grylls
#82. With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.
Valtteri Bottas
#83. The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from.
Trick Daddy
#84. Reinventing yourself and becoming someone else is simple. Owning who you are, that's the hard thing,
Sabrina Paige
#85. The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.
Gina McKee
#86. An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.
Jay Abraham
#87. I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could
love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.
Marilyn Monroe
#88. Love seems like such a simple thing to ask for. Such a basic right. It takes no skill, no experience, no money, no education, nothing
it can happen to anyone.
But it doesn't happen to everyone.
Even though everyone, deep down, wants it.
Anyway, I do.
Beth Harbison
#89. And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
Alexander McCall Smith
#90. Lila Bard lived by a simple rule: if a thing was worth having, it was worth taking.
V.E Schwab
#91. The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing ... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
Bertrand Russell
#92. Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
George Bernard Shaw
#93. One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved .
Bill Hybels
#94. It's pretty simple to me: we come from a really grounded world where anything you say could be the thing that the scene becomes about. We're always treating it as if we would treat it in real life. It's all observation.
Lennon Parham
#95. I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
Gertrude Stein
#96. What if it's as simple as one moment? One tiny thing, like that kiss on the rocks? What if I'd kissed him a little longer? Would he be alive right now? Or what if I'd stayed with him Friday night, what if I'd been with him ... wherever he was?
Kristina McBride
#97. We need a childlike trust that God is good ... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.
Rob Bell
#98. The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.
Jermain Defoe
#99. The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
Daniel Berrigan
#100. Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn't the same thing as easy.
John Scalzi
