There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law, punish those who do not.
Rush LimbaughIt is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
AristotleThe process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
John Kenneth GalbraithMen are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs, that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo MachiavelliI have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao TzuThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George EliotThe point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand RussellThoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich NietzscheThe simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave BarryA return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo MachiavelliIt is fatal to be a man or woman, pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia WoolfIt is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated, far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John RuskinWell, I have a very simple method of painting.
Edward HopperGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph CampbellMen are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment, that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Norman Vincent PealeThe simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas SowellI got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
Steven WrightMost of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple and may as a rule be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert EinsteinSince when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill GatesThat'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. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there you can move mountains.
Steve JobsSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da VinciIssues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack ObamaMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George EliotOn a level plain simple mounds look like hills, and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl MarxOh come on, you have got to be kidding me. I had good looks but missed them. It is as simple as that. They just weren't falling. Some nights I am on fire and other nights I have nights like tonight where the shots weren't going in.
Kobe BryantThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar WildeChildren show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
Michael JacksonA bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Maya AngelouI describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
Dalai LamaIt's quite simple (public speaking) Say what you have to say, and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down.
Winston ChurchillFor me, it was always a simple passion.
Lance ArmstrongGod always takes the simplest way.
Albert EinsteinKnowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. EliotThe statement of Christ is simple. He who sent me among you will come again . And he pointed to a lamb. The lamb is merely a symbol -- a sign. It stands for the voice - BABA. The announcement was The advent of BABA . He will wear a robe of red blooded robe. He will be short with a crown (of hair). The lamb is a sign and symbol of Love.
Sai BabaThe quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
Johnny DeppWe just did not execute in overtime and the execution was really simple ... They just got the ball to Jason and let him operate.
Kobe BryantI want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president, the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack ObamaEverything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinMost people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
Mason CooleyIt takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number add it to this number put the result there perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of let's say 1 000 000 per second. At 1 000 000 per second the results appear to be magic.
Steve Jobs