Top 1200 Simplest Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

Sometimes I don't even accept the simplest medical treatment, such as, for example, the anti-flu vaccine.

As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

I think the details and the quality are so important that it has to have an emotional tug. Even if it's the simplest shoe, it has to have something that says, 'Oh, I have to have you.'

Sometimes I feel people try to be too complex. Some of the greatest songs are so simple. The simplest phrases.

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

I always think about the simplest things in a relationship that have frustrated me. It always sort of comes down to communication. Even something as simple as probably the worst thing that could happen is, 'Where do you want to go to dinner?' 'I dunno. Where do you want to go to dinner?' 'I dunno.' That might be the worst thing in the world.

Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet.

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

'The Chase' is such a strong format and so simple to follow. The best quiz show formats are the simplest.

All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I'm inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.

[The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.

Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

It's quite true to say that if you work with marvellous fresh ingredients, the simplest dish is taken to another level.

I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.

Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.