Simplicities Quotes

#1. All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

Clementine Paddleford

#3. Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Winston S. Churchill

#4. The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Eugene Wigner

#5. A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator.

Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

#6. Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.

Steve Fowler

#7. We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Norman Vincent Peale

#8. Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".

Richard O. Moore

#9. Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

Donella Meadows

#10. It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

Daniel J. Rice

#11. We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.

Jacques Barzun

#13. Happiness is found by embracing life's simplicities.

T.L. Seacliff

#14. Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

Christy Hall

#15. Speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

Margaret Atwood

#16. The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

Amish Tripathi

#17. You and I may look at a banana and see a banana. If forced to come up with something more inventive to do with it, perhaps we'd mash it up, or maybe we'd dip it in chocolate, and say 'What a good boy am I.

Peter Sagal

#18. Why was it so difficult to be absorbed in the most vital and, in a way, the most natural of all questions?

Jostein Gaarder

#19. Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

James Hansen

#20. It is where we embrace our questions ... Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?

Terry Tempest Williams

#21. Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

Chase Jarvis