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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
— Khaled Hosseini
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
— Howard Schultz
Simple questions
and simple answers
were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes. — Alexander McCall Smith
and simple answers
were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes. — Alexander McCall Smith
Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.
— Phil Crosby
I said no to having a beer. I once had a beer with my brother when I was twelve, and I just didn't like it. It's really that simple for me. [pp.37]
— Stephen Chbosky
Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?
— Kiera Cass
Because walking away isn't that simple anymore, and even if it was, I wouldn't let her.
— Claire Contreras
I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
— Lee Child
Life was created simple and it is important to live it as such. Simplicity is inherent; it leads to peace of mind and tranquility.
— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
All he felt was sorrow, as if he'd been abandoned at the bottom of a deep, dark pit. That's all it was - sorrow. That, and simple physical pain.
— Haruki Murakami
I was so far beyond simple fatigue that I was beginning to feel nicely adjusted to the idea of permanent hysteria.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed
— Paulo Coelho
Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.
— Roy MacGregor
Men had it so simple. When it wasn't about Sticking It In, it was about Having The Gun, a variation that allowed them to Stick It In from a distance.
— Thomas Pynchon
Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born.
— Jacqueline Delange
For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.
— Lance Armstrong
His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.
— Ayn Rand
What he wanted was both simple and complex: he wanted Galbatorix to understand ...
— Christopher Paolini
It was good to know that when swords failed, simple girl tactics always worked - even on monsters.
— Courtney Allison Moulton
Every great finish was once a simple beginning. Start now.
— Robin Sharma
It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'
— Andrew P. Harris
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make?
The answer was eerily simple.
I had time to make all of them. — Richelle Mead
The answer was eerily simple.
I had time to make all of them. — Richelle Mead
How would this world be if there was not God? The answer is simple: it would become itself God.
— Sorin Cerin
When I tried to understand consciousness, I found out how simple it was, but we try to make it so complicated.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing was ever easy or simple, not one blasted thing.
— Jackie Merritt
It had seemed simple in theory to persuade one of them to allow a male into her bed and heart. The reality of it was anything but easy.
— Laurann Dohner
[Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her.
— Jim Butcher
A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.
— Faraaz Kazi
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
— Walter Scott
That your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski
Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.
— David Halberstam
He was finally feeling what is it to be loved by somebody. To be cared for. To be missed. The simple things that we all take for granted ...
— S.C. Stephens
It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
— Moon Unit Zappa
It was one of those simple facts of life: the sky was blue, gravity kept our feet firmly on the ground, and I loved Katie Weber." ~ Jamie
— Catherine Gayle
Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.
— Michael Foot
When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.
— Tanya Tucker
Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.
— Rebecca Scherm
The matter to me was simple:
love for you was so strong,
I could see you in my soul
and talk to you all day long. — Juana Ines De La Cruz
love for you was so strong,
I could see you in my soul
and talk to you all day long. — Juana Ines De La Cruz
War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.
— Kate Elliott
My anthropological back gets raised hackles with simple worlds and simple conflicts. Nothing's simple. Nothing ever was.
— Steven Erikson
Therefore it was not pride that took me into the village twice a week, or even stubbornness, but only the simple need for books and food.
— Shirley Jackson
The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.
— John Grisham
and simple it was to join up. There was no better time
— Sofka Zinovieff
Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.
— Nora Roberts
I've learned ... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
— Andy Rooney
What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?
— Richard Russo
Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks?
— Chris Bent
Something as simple as parental grooming was changing the expression of a living animal's genetic code.
— Anonymous
The best way to live, then, was this: have a very simple lifestyle, be kind to those around you, and surround yourself with friends.
— Nigel Warburton
Bend like a willow. You made it sound so simple."
"It was simple."
"Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences. — Rachel Hartman
"It was simple."
"Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences. — Rachel Hartman
Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.
— Lucy Grealy
I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.
— Steven Spielberg
Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For the one that loved, the nightmare, it was simple. It never had been, but was all in their mind.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
I did not forget that there was a panic button. The problem is simple - when there is real panic, one does not immediately think of buttons. The
— Dan Simmons
Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
— Bear Grylls
The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.
— Simon Mainwaring
The longer he lived, the more Tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.
— George R R Martin
Pretend you're good at it." It seemed too simple, but it was all I had so I scrawled the words on my arm and repeated it as a mantra.
— Jenny Lawson
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
— Barbra Streisand
The novel was simple, heartwarming, painful, and lovely, all in perfect doses." -Writer's Digest Review of Emily Nelson's The Locket
— Emily Nelson
Even the most simple thing such as looking up the sky could bring comfort to you, even when the one you loved was far away.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
She had chosen me and it was as simple as that.
— Charles Bukowski
That old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.
— Bill Crawford
No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.
— F.K. Preston
It was a simple lesson, really. He could never, ever allow misplaced ideals to seduce him. He would not employ death as a tool.
— Bonnie Dee
The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes.
— Rutledge Etheridge
The only life worth living was the unfree life ... the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the wish to be simple and perfect.
— Chad Harbach
He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She was consumed by 2 simple things:
despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more:
youth and beauty — Charles Bukowski
despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more:
youth and beauty — Charles Bukowski
He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name.
— Jodi Picoult
I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.
— Joel Osteen
I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff.
— John Muckler
I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
— Lindsay Fox
It was in idleness that one came face-to-face with the I AM. With simple, elemental Being.
— Mary Balogh
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
— Grace Murray Hopper