Quotes on Simple

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved Miss Barrett. Looking up at her from under his eyebrows as she lay, severe and silent on the sofa, he knew that he must love her for ever. Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.

And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question, but never gives it. The question, the one we’ve all been asking since girls stopped being gross, the question that is to simple to be uncomplicated: Does she like me or does she LIKE me?

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision.

Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth.

Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.

There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.