I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion. But I realized something as I drove home t...
Most morality, thought Mma Ramotswe, was about doing the right thing because it had been identified as such by a long process of acceptance and observance. You simply could not create your own morality because your experience would never be enough to...
It occurred to me, not exactly for the first time, that psychogeography didn't have much to do with the actual experience of walking. It was a nice idea, a clever idea, an art project, a conceit, but it had very little to do with any real walking, wi...
Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be good, or to be bad. They show us people like ourselves doing right things and wrong things, acting bravely or acting meanly, being cruel or being...
Antonio Salieri: My plan was so simple. It terrified me. First I must get the death mass and then, I must achieve his death. Father Vogler: [stares in horror] What? Antonio Salieri: His funeral! Imagine it, the cathedral, all Vienna sitting there, hi...
I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.
The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.
And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.
I'm no mystery; I'm just a simple woman with complex fantasies and fetishes.
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.
Leaders don't need a path. They make one.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
¿Acaso el odio no es un simple resultado del amor herido?
If believing were simple, then this world wouldn’t be in the mess that it is today.
If you hide the talents, you hide your brand. It’s simple.
We see the world as we are.
Be the compassion you seek.
It is easy; just be to have.
Be the tolerance you seek.
