Simply Quotes

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.