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Quotes About Simplicity

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.
~ Byron Katie
I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.
~ Hamilton Leithauser
Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.
~ Keith Rabois
You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.
~ Paulo Coelho
If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
~ Philip Yancey
I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively.
~ Sarah Silverman
Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!
~ Alexander McCall Smith
My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.
~ Amanda Donohoe
I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, its advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.
~ Amish Tripathi
Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.
~ Andy Stanley
I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.
~ Anne Robinson
If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.
~ Art Alexakis
If I'm outside, I want something flat on my feet.
~ Ashley Madekwe
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.
~ Bill Bryson
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
~ Bill Gates
When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
~ Charles Dickens
I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.
~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I'm trying just to do good clothes, clothes that you need as much as you want.
~ Christophe Lemaire
I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
~ Dan Brown
I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.
~ Dhani Jones