Quotes with simple

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  • John Adams Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Nelson Boswell Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
    Nelson Boswell
    American author
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  • John Osborne Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Alice Walker How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Derek Wall How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.
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  • Leonardo DaVinci Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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  • Alberto Sordi I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
    Alberto Sordi
    Italian actor, film director and singer (1920 - 2003)
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  • Oscar Wilde I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbra Streisand I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Richard Deupree I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.
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  • Louis Armstrong I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you!
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Tony Bennett I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
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  • Alice Roosevelt Longworth I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
    Passell - The Best (1974)
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    American writer and prominent socialite (1884 - 1980)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Euripides I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Anne Stevenson I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Gaston Bachelard Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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