“Nothing in this war between cousins is simple.”— Steven Knight, Edgar Dumbarton, Michael Kelly, imdb.com
“Afghanistan is the simplest place in the world, once you stop trying to change it.”— Steve Lightfoot, Billy Russo, Ben Barnes, imdb.com
“[On life] Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.”— Joss Whedon, Rupert Giles, Anthony Stewart Head, imdb.com
“Thus we come to understand that what is true, simple, and genuine appeals most strongly to a man's nature.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero, perseus.tufts.edu
“How does a girl become strong? How does she enact change? How does she grow into a strong woman? It begins with a step that sounds simple, but isn’t. She finds her voice.”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org
“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”— Rita Mae Brown, amazon.com
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.”— Anton Chekhov, amazon.com
“I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.”— Jewel Kilcher, amazon.com
“The Beautiful is always strange…it always contains a touch of strangeness, of simple, unpremeditated and unconscious strangeness, and it is that touch of strangeness that gives it its particular quality as Beauty.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food.”— Meryl Streep, facebook.com
“Sometimes life is simple, my feet on the dashboard your fingers in my hair the windows down and our worries in the rearview.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.”— David Duchovny, brainyquote.com
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”— Steve Jobs, cheatsheet.com