Quotes of: Simple-things Keyword

There are simple remedies for sausages that are too long.

Danish

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist.

The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger

This is the middle. Things have had time to get complicated, messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore... This is the thick of things. So much is crowded into the middle— ...too much to name, too much to think about.

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

Fine. Fine. Let’s try. You asked why bad things happen to good people. Well, the simple answer is, there are no bad things and there are no good people. Nothing bad ever happens to anyone and people are neither good nor bad. A person is nothing. A ...

Paradox Love

Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood.

And Then the End Will Come!: But Five Things You Need to Know in the Meantime

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: This is exactly what I didn't want. I wanted simple, I wanted in-and-out, I wanted easy money. Zoë: Things always get a little more complicated, don't they, sir? Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Once, just once, I want things to go ac...

Serenity

Something good happened to my writing when stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn’t do something more complex. Don’t be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and f...

Carrie Newcomer

The connoisseur's hushed, museum-trained gaze is not well-designed for these purposes. That gaze values subtlety, complexity, ambiguity, and irony. Its most characteristic grace note is self-congratulation at being the kind of person who likes this r...

Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures

When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not...

Fugitive Pieces

When the soul-penetrating pathos she was beaming at me failed to prevent me from continuing to put things in boxes, the helper dog became increasingly alarmed. Over the ensuing few days, she slowly descended into psychological chaos. The simple dog r...

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

We shall find the time. Time to grow and learn and create. Time to enjoy and love and be loved. Time to remember and laugh and cry. Time to be courageous and wise and simple. Time to explore and develop and evolve. Time to find things, lose things an...

Levon Peter Poe

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

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.

Sweet Destiny

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Be an asset in the lives of others. Put people before things and live from your heart.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

Geoff Mulgan

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

There is no such thing as perfection and it is okay for you to have negative thoughts.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.

Richelle E. Goodrich