Quotes of: Simply Keyword

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

A Compendium of Essays: Purcell, Hogarth and Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, and Andrew Lloyd Webber

You are not attracting the wrong people, you are simply accepting them. Saying ‘No’ frees you up so you can say ‘Yes’ when you truly want to.

Don't Think Of a Blue Ball

Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.

The Drama of Doctrine

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

The Diary of a Young Girl

One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.

The Daffodill Principle

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

Dreams of Sleep

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.

Divisadero

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

Did you sell to them or did you simply facilitate their buying from you, hmm? Very different scenarios, my boy, very different indeed.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.

Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

A Fire Upon the Deep

A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.

The Female Eunuch

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.

The Final Empire

I brought my lips down to hers, and it was like everything that had ever happened to me had simply been a warm-up for this moment, that this was where my life truly began.

The Fiery Heart

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.

The Girl You Left Behind

[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.

Good Calories, Bad Calories

It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!

Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy