All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.
I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple or too... expected.
Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.
We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses.
When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.
I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things li...
The thing about hiking the Pacific Coast Trial, the thing that was so profound to me that summer -- and yet also, like many things, so very simple -- was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do. How there was no...
Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.
Once we got to eating, the idea of happiness returned to me. Not the feeling, the idea. Would a regular girl be happy simply eating a hot meal with a great deal of chew to it? Maybe happiness is a simple thing. Maybe it's as simple as the salty taste...
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
In everyone's mind there is a whisper of the next step. It may be simple, such as making a phone call or reading a book. It may be a very concrete, mundane step to take that may not even seem connected with your higher vision. Know that you are alway...
I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be deligh...
I live a pretty simple life.
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from.
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
