Simply Quotes

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

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.

I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.