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Quotes About Simple

I'm incredibly naive.
~ Christina Ricci
Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.
~ Jake LaMotta
There is a bit of a fanatic in his eyes. He believes he is on a holy mission and has elected himself the main deity. That disturbs me even more. A prophet is more dangerous than a criminal. At least a criminal's needs are simple. A prophet requires constant stimulation. The false ones at least.
~ Christopher Pike
The simple cannot choose their personal heresy, Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land, who passes through their village or stops in their square.
~ Umberto Eco
We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong.
~ Umberto Eco
The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.
~ Victor Hugo
Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
~ L'Wren Scott
This was a vital part of the process of simple realization, the realization that knowledge led either to wholesale illusion or to irrational depression.
~ László Krasznahorkai
simple love's hard to come by/ im just living my life, and i'm trying to be a lady.
~ L. Divine
Simple love's hard to come by/ I'm just living my life, and I'm trying to be a lady." —CHRISETTE MICHELE
~ L. Divine
It was a little awkward, lining up to get the position right. Mary-Lynnette had never kissed a boy before. But once she started she found it was simple. And…now she saw what the electric feeling of being soulmates was for. All the sensations she'd felt when touching his hand, only intensified. And not unpleasant. It was only unpleasant if you were afraid of it.
~ L.J. Smith
Patton wrote in his diary on April 15th, the morning after his departure from II Corps: "War is very simple, direct and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct and ruthless man to wage war." He had no doubt that he was such a man.
~ Ladislas Farago
It's an open horizon before us, as far as the eye can see: no angst and no games, just mutual delight. So simple, but so rich. Like chocolate. Not a gold-dusted truffle or a foofy pastry tower teetering on a crystal platter, but a plain, honest bar of the best chocolate in the world.
~ Laini Taylor
You were rational. I used to think you the most reasonable of the brothers. You were rational until you had a glimpse of the truth—very simple, but distorting your assumptions, blowing them up from the inside.
~ Lan Samantha Chang
Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.
~ Langston Hughes
She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.
~ Cassandra Clare
My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
~ Cate Blanchett
Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
But the story is no good without a villain. It can't feel true without a villain. Otherwise, everything would already be as it ought to be, yes? Someone has to be at fault. And if you are the hero, it stands to reason that folk who do not look like you or talk like you or like to eat the same things you like to eat must be the villains. After all, the world is easy and simple, is it not?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
This shit is easy peasy, pumpkin peasy, pumpkin pie, muthafucka!
~ Gerard Way
This shit is easy peasy pumpkin peasey...Pumpkin pie, motherfucker.
~ Gerard Way
My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
If ordinary men never report the occurrence of these acts, for all that, according to the theory, they should be encountered vastly more frequently than headaches, or feelings of boredom; if ordinary vocabulary has no non-academic names for them; if we do not know how to settle simple questions about their frequency, duration or strength, then it is fair to conclude that their existence is not asserted on empirical grounds.
~ Gilbert Ryle