Simply Quotes

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

I don't expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that's not in either economy's interest.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.