Simplest Person Quotes

#1. During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

Dalai Lama

#2. Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Thomas Friedman

#3. Faith is trusting, trusting wholly upon the person, work, merit, and power of the Son of God. Some think this trusting is a romantic business, but indeed it is the simplest thing that can possibly be.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.

Vladimir Sorokin

#5. Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

Moby

#6. The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

Carolyn Parkhurst

#7. This is all lie, she want to say to them. The dead are not hovering nearby to knock politely at teacups and tabletops and whisper through billowing curtains.

Erin Morgenstern

#8. There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose tirelessly pursued.

Steve Maraboli

#9. Sometimes it's right to meet in the middle, but sometimes, the simplest act of grace is to meet the other person where they are. That, that is love

Mia Sheridan

#10. The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

Laurie Colwin

#11. A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#12. Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state ... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?

William Alcott

#13. God did not put you on this earth simplest to be any person's mom.

Heather McDonald

#14. Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

Thomas Boswell

#15. I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.

John Hughes

#16. There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

Lupita Nyong'o

#17. Communication feels like it should be the simplest thing, but it's not. Sometimes you don't even understand what you're feeling. You don't know how to put that into words, so how are you suppose to tell the person you love that you're upset.

Taissa Farmiga

#18. Boredom is the secret to releasing pleasure. Once something becomes so tedious that its purpose becomes secondary to its nature, then the real work can start.

Ian Bogost

#19. Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Finley Peter Dunne

#20. But that's a way to go on loving
a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love. [p. 56]

Shirley Hazzard

#21. Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, "a gentleman couldn't go into politics." But,

Edith Wharton