Quotes of: Simple-life Keyword

The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion. Yet the kind of economics covered in the textbooks is a technical subject that many peo...

Paul Krugman

It is believed that the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. It is so in social life, too. Without any egoistic interest nobody criticizes the government. Give the critics the money and the power, more than they have, they will ...

Elmar Hussein

Baloo: Now, look. It's like this, little britches. All you gotta do is... Baloo: [singing] Look for the bare necessities / The simple bare necessities / Forget about your worries and your strife / I mean the bare necessities / Are Mother Nature's rec...

The Jungle Book

The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the digital age, follow this simple remedy: remember that you dream. For that is ironclad proof . . . that literature—that narrati...

Adam Hammond

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor...

Life

By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I am - would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of ...

Good Bones and Simple Murders

Trying to be white? What the hell does that mean? I've never understood that. How could anyone be white when they aren't white? Seems like a simple enough thing to prove, right? Hold out your arm next to someone else's arm and do a simple swatch test...

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness ...

Chogyam Trungpa

Imagine if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple, embellishment-free, functional car that was made from the most environmentally-sustainable materials, how cheap to buy and humanity-and-Earth-conside...

Jeremy Griffith

prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Calculating God

The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.

The Client

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

Conversations With Myself

Sometimes, even pretty simple situations can become tough, when the thing you love the most and the thing you have to sacrifice is the same.

The Cavalier

Your goals and the tasks you choose to accomplish your goals either align with dream and core values or they don’t. It’s that simple.

Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

How will I go on without her?! The answer was very simple: one day at a time.

Dumb Jock

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

Fair Play

I am in love with you, and I am not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

The Fault in Our Stars