Simply Quotes

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.

In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.