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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.
Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.
How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.
It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to worry about the audience loving you.
The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.
On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.
Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this.
We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Hope is at once both simple and profound. It is hope that binds Heaven and earth. Hope is the bridge between Heaven and earth.
My job is to watch the powerful. It's a simple job description, watch powerful people and make sure they don't hurt the folks.
Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.
My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.
People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.
If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.
'Dirty Jobs' is a fun, simple little show with huge themes under it. For me, it's penance, it's redemption, it's a sweaty mess.
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.
I think there's an intricacy in doing something that's meant to look really simple and having it actually be quite complicated.
No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.
Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
God created a path to his kingdom that is simple and straight. The obstacles that stand between you and God were created by man.
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.