Africa is people may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.
- Chinua Achebe
Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.
- Paulo Coelho
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
- Paulo Coelho
the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things
- Paulo Coelho
I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.
- Paulo Coelho
simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.
- Paulo Coelho
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them
- Paulo Coelho
True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do
- Paulo Coelho
Everything had changed for me, and words that I had never understood before suddenly began to make sense. This came as revelation, and when I finally had time to absorb it, I wondered how I had managed to live so long without learning this simple thing. I am not talking about desire so much as knowledge, the discovery that two people, through desire, can create a thing more powerful than either of them can create alone.
- Paul Auster
I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to understand me; you won't figure me out. But you're free to like me the way I am.
- Marwa Ayad
He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.
"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.
- Richard Bach
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
- Oscar Wilde
Even the most simple thing such as looking up the sky could bring comfort to you, even when the one you loved was far away.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.
- John Barth
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
- Haruki Murakami
After I gave up sleeping, it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework.
Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
- Haruki Murakami
If you think too much heaven within your mind,
you may have no time for simple things in this life.
- Toba Beta
People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.
- Jeff Bezos
You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
- Jeff Bezos
I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.
- Juliette Binoche
It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. ("Interval In Sunlight")
- Ray Bradbury
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
- Richard Brautigan
Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.
- Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world..
- E A Bucchianeri
she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty
- Charles Bukowski
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
- Charles Bukowski
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.
- Jonathan Carroll
It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.
- Joe Chung
There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.
- Kelly Clarkson
I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.
- David Levithan
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
- Calvin Coolidge
So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such great fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.
- Susan Cooper
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- James J Corbett
We humans do thousand and one thing to impress others and show to the world that we are smart and wise but we tend to forget one very simple thing, there is small child in each one of us which is hungry for our own trust and inspirations.
- Santosh Kalwar
Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.
- Daniel Dennett
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleonora Duse
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
- Umberto Eco
I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.
- Jonny Lee Miller
The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.
- Kevin Eubanks
Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
- Dave Mustaine
I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.
- Colin Farrell
The simple things in life make me very happy.
- Samantha Fox
If you, like me, are essentially a city person, then the chances are that when you imagine a wood you picture a simple thing: matching green trees in even rows, a soft carpet of dead leaves or pine needles, orderly as a child's drawing. Possibly those earnestly efficient man-made woods are in fact like that; I wouldn't know.
- Tana French
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
- Arthur Golden
If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.
- Terry Goodkind
We don't want to lose you Lord Rahl. We don't want to go back to way things were." She sounded on the verge of tears. "We like being able to do simple things, like make a joke, and laugh. We could never do such things before. We always lived in fear that if we said the wrong thing we would be beaten, or worse. Now that we have seen another way, we don't want to go back to that. If you throw your life away for the Midlands, then we will.- Cara
- Terry Goodkind
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person
- Sylvia Plath
The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.
- Mariel Hemingway
Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few. -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
- King Hussein I
Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
- Bobby Jindal
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.
- William George Jordan
Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
- Bil Keane
Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.
- Jamaica Kincaid
I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.
- Raul Labrador
I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
- Queen Latifah
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
- Eddie Marsan
Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
- Colum Mccann
Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
- Stella Mccartney
Simple things are often the most challenging.
- Jodi Meadows
It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
- Donald Miller
Almost ready, sir,' said the sweating, harassed bosun. 'I'm working the cunt-splice myself.'
'Well,' said Jack, hurrying off to where the stern-chaser hung poised above the Sophie's quarter-deck, ready to plunge through her bottom if gravity could but have its way, 'a simple thing like a cunt-splice will not take a man of war's bosun long, I believe.
- Patrick O Brian
The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.
- Chris Odonnell
But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old.
I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on her face.
She put her small hand on mine.
The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.
- Nuala O Faolain
It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.
- Linda Olsson
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
- Marcel Proust
The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.
- Patrick Rothfuss
There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!
- Vikram Roy
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Friedrich Schiller
The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
- Izabella Scorupco
I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
- Justin Timberlake
I love you, that is a simple thing to say...but my spirit does not love yours, it is entwined with it.
- Sarah Waters
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.
- Roy H Williams
My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
- Fay Wray
We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.
- Judith Wright
I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.Someone, from the bottom of my heart...Straightforward, unwavering...It seems like such a simple thing, so then why.......Must it be so incredibly hard?
- Ai Yazawa
Look how beautiful the green lawns of the park are in the misty evening light, unmuddied, smooth, alive, no holes, no bodies, no barbed wire, no explosions. Such a simple thing to be grateful for. No wrongness. Can no wrongness be enough to make rightness? God, no wrongness. No wrongness would be fucking marvellous.
- Louisa Young
- Chinua Achebe
Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.
- Paulo Coelho
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
- Paulo Coelho
the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things
- Paulo Coelho
I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.
- Paulo Coelho
simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.
- Paulo Coelho
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them
- Paulo Coelho
True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do
- Paulo Coelho
Everything had changed for me, and words that I had never understood before suddenly began to make sense. This came as revelation, and when I finally had time to absorb it, I wondered how I had managed to live so long without learning this simple thing. I am not talking about desire so much as knowledge, the discovery that two people, through desire, can create a thing more powerful than either of them can create alone.
- Paul Auster
I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to understand me; you won't figure me out. But you're free to like me the way I am.
- Marwa Ayad
He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.
"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.
- Richard Bach
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
- Oscar Wilde
Even the most simple thing such as looking up the sky could bring comfort to you, even when the one you loved was far away.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.
- John Barth
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
- Haruki Murakami
After I gave up sleeping, it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework.
Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
- Haruki Murakami
If you think too much heaven within your mind,
you may have no time for simple things in this life.
- Toba Beta
People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.
- Jeff Bezos
You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
- Jeff Bezos
I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.
- Juliette Binoche
It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. ("Interval In Sunlight")
- Ray Bradbury
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
- Richard Brautigan
Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.
- Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world..
- E A Bucchianeri
she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty
- Charles Bukowski
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
- Charles Bukowski
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.
- Jonathan Carroll
It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.
- Joe Chung
There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.
- Kelly Clarkson
I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.
- David Levithan
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
- Calvin Coolidge
So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such great fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.
- Susan Cooper
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- James J Corbett
We humans do thousand and one thing to impress others and show to the world that we are smart and wise but we tend to forget one very simple thing, there is small child in each one of us which is hungry for our own trust and inspirations.
- Santosh Kalwar
Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.
- Daniel Dennett
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleonora Duse
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
- Umberto Eco
I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.
- Jonny Lee Miller
The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.
- Kevin Eubanks
Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
- Dave Mustaine
I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.
- Colin Farrell
The simple things in life make me very happy.
- Samantha Fox
If you, like me, are essentially a city person, then the chances are that when you imagine a wood you picture a simple thing: matching green trees in even rows, a soft carpet of dead leaves or pine needles, orderly as a child's drawing. Possibly those earnestly efficient man-made woods are in fact like that; I wouldn't know.
- Tana French
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
- Arthur Golden
If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.
- Terry Goodkind
We don't want to lose you Lord Rahl. We don't want to go back to way things were." She sounded on the verge of tears. "We like being able to do simple things, like make a joke, and laugh. We could never do such things before. We always lived in fear that if we said the wrong thing we would be beaten, or worse. Now that we have seen another way, we don't want to go back to that. If you throw your life away for the Midlands, then we will.- Cara
- Terry Goodkind
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person
- Sylvia Plath
The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.
- Mariel Hemingway
Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few. -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
- King Hussein I
Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
- Bobby Jindal
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.
- William George Jordan
Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
- Bil Keane
Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.
- Jamaica Kincaid
I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.
- Raul Labrador
I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
- Queen Latifah
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
- Eddie Marsan
Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
- Colum Mccann
Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
- Stella Mccartney
Simple things are often the most challenging.
- Jodi Meadows
It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
- Donald Miller
Almost ready, sir,' said the sweating, harassed bosun. 'I'm working the cunt-splice myself.'
'Well,' said Jack, hurrying off to where the stern-chaser hung poised above the Sophie's quarter-deck, ready to plunge through her bottom if gravity could but have its way, 'a simple thing like a cunt-splice will not take a man of war's bosun long, I believe.
- Patrick O Brian
The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.
- Chris Odonnell
But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old.
I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on her face.
She put her small hand on mine.
The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.
- Nuala O Faolain
It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.
- Linda Olsson
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
- Marcel Proust
The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.
- Patrick Rothfuss
There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!
- Vikram Roy
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Friedrich Schiller
The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
- Izabella Scorupco
I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
- Justin Timberlake
I love you, that is a simple thing to say...but my spirit does not love yours, it is entwined with it.
- Sarah Waters
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.
- Roy H Williams
My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
- Fay Wray
We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.
- Judith Wright
I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.Someone, from the bottom of my heart...Straightforward, unwavering...It seems like such a simple thing, so then why.......Must it be so incredibly hard?
- Ai Yazawa
Look how beautiful the green lawns of the park are in the misty evening light, unmuddied, smooth, alive, no holes, no bodies, no barbed wire, no explosions. Such a simple thing to be grateful for. No wrongness. Can no wrongness be enough to make rightness? God, no wrongness. No wrongness would be fucking marvellous.
- Louisa Young
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