Simplest Quotes - Page 6

• Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this virtuous cycle in the simplest ways, for example, by giving someone a hug. I send you a hug!

  Paul J. Zak

  Kindness, Oxytocin, Giving

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• In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War

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• Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Religious, Views

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• Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Water, Rural Areas, Granted

  "Helping East Africa: The Basic Necessities and the People Who Go Without" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.

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

  Ann Bridge

  Attitude, Life And Death, House

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.109, A&C Black

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• The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.

  Andre Breton

  Hands, Levels, Crowds

  "Not Numb" by Madeleine Watts, logger.believermag.com. March 25, 2016.

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• When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Things In Life, Care

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• That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Work Out, Trying, Life Is

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.

  Kevin Hart

  Writing, Trying, Anxious

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, Men, Doe

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

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Dream, Mean, Reality

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.6, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• The best plans are always the simplest.

  Jasper Fforde

  Plans

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• I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Men, Weight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Topics, Portraits, Assuming

  Le Parisien, May, 2003.

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• When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Source: 4chanlit.wikia.com

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• 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.

  Nikki Sixx

  Song, Memorable, Glue

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?

  William Alcott

  Food, Simple, Practice

  William A. Alcott (2013). “The Young Housekeeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

  George Sand

  Ice, Darkness, World

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.335, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Inability, Enough, Embellishment

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

  Stevie Smith

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• The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

  Northrop Frye

  Knowledge, Answers, Hardest

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• The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.

  Austin Phelps

  Intelligent, Simple, House

  Austin Phelps (1882). “Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching”

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• The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.

  Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

  Truth, Simplicity

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• If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.

  Julia Roberts

  Appreciate, Worry, Sublime

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• Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye
  Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky;
  The May-thorn greening in the nook;
  The minnows sporting in the brook;
  The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers;
  The song of birds amid the bowers;
  The crystal of the azure seas;
  The music of the southern breeze;
  And, over all, the blessed sun,
  Telling of halcyon days begun.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Summer, Song, Flower

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.149

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