Simply Quotes

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.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous pre-season training - something I've not previously experienced. And I knocked local football on the head this winter, simply to ensure I didn't pick up any injuries.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.