Simple Quotes - Page 11

• Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

  Francois Fenelon

  Guides

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• As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how to meticulously manage my time.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Daughter, Wife, Schedules

  "LearnVest's CEO: 5 Time Management Tips I Can't Live Without" by Alexa von Tobel, www.businessinsider.com. September 11, 2013.

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• The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting those of simple subtraction, multiplication and division, can be performed by it only just to that extent in which it is possible, by judicious mathematical arrangement and artifices, to reduce them to a series of additions.

  Ada Lovelace

  Reality, Differences, Add

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• Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.

  Meister Eckhart

  Light, Spy, Here And There

  Meister Eckhart (1987). “Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises”, Element Books Limited

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• A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance?

  John Edgar Park

  Christian, Book, Doe

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• For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.

  Max Lucado

  Giving Up, Winning, Men

  Max Lucado (2013). “God's Inspirational Promises”, p.166, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  J. C. Watts

  Kings, Children, Character

  J. C. Watts' Republican Response to The President's State of The Union Message, www.cnn.com. February 4, 1997.

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• I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...

  Tom Hanks

  Healing, Eye, Angel

  Tom Hanks' Academy Award Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1994.

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• There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Opposites, Ideas, Understanding

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• The reason you keep on coming back to see me is very simple; every time you have seen me your body has learned certain things, even against your desire. And finally your body now needs to come back to me to learn more. Let's say that your body knows that it is going to die, even though you never think about it. So I've been telling your body that I too am going to die and before I do I would like to show our body certain things, things which you cannot give to your body yourself... So let's say then that your body returns to me because I am its friend

  Carlos Castaneda

  Thinking, Giving, Desire

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• Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

  Richard Lloyd

  Teenage, Guitar, Support

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• The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Differences, Mines

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• Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Naked, Understood, Jokes

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• If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.

  James Surowiecki

  Army, Circles, Two

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• My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.

  Andy Garcia

  Son, Recipes, Masters

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• Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Hug, Mind

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sometimes, Truth Is

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• The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story adequately enough in what we have termed culturally common stories. To some extent, the stories of a culture are observable by inspecting the vocabulary of that culture. Often entire stories are embodied in one very culture-specific word. The story words unique to a culture reveal cultural differences.

  Roger Schank

  Unique, Vocabulary, Differences

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• That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Fun, Giving, Definitions

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• Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

  Winston Churchill

  Citizens, Want, Pleasure

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• All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.

  Sam Haskins

  Piano, Cameras, Use

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• Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

  Charles Bukowski

  Artist, Way, Difficult

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• We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

  Chris Hayes

  Realization, World, Assuming

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• Making something simple is very difficult.

  Jack Dorsey

  Difficult

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