He was simply not a “hero”, which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

It might well be that getting used to things up here was simply a matter of getting used to not getting used to them – but

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

We didn’t start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what’s going on around us

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them

Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president

Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true, but many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence

That is God’s call to us – simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right; but spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count.

If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

It must be said that almost all primitive people think themselves divinely wrought, singled out and special. Often their names translate simply as “the people” or, like the San bushmen of the Kalahari, the first people. But this is a symptom of primitiveness; attempting to prove divine biology in the nineteenth century is the anthropological equivalent of a society regressing to sleeping with the lights on

To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. If you are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. You can attain many insights by looking into the past. But you are still grounded in the present moment

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner.

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone ‘happy’, no greater flattery than to grant him a ‘vein of melancholy’… This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

I never tell a lie. Liars lead very complex lives and I am simply afraid of getting caught out. So people conclude that I am cunning.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.”

I don’t see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn’t anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.

God’s viewpoint is sometimes different from ours – so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things….In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

The Christian heaven is a concept of the utmost simplicity. Heaven is for the obedient. Hell is for the disobedient. Heaven is for those who have faith. Hell is for those who don’t.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

If leaders are unable to slough off yesterday, to abandon yesterday, they simply will not be able to create tomorrow.

In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.

Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Live simply so others may simply live.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at

If friends disappoint you over and over, that’s in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren’t going to change simply because you want them to.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.