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  • When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Garner Quotes , Writing Quotes , Simple Quotes
  • Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , Simple Quotes
  • I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Simple Quotes , Cells Quotes
  • It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Book Quotes , Simple Quotes
  • I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Believe Quotes , Simple Quotes
  • If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Simple Quotes , Men Quotes
  • All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adriana Trigiani Quotes , Taken Quotes , Simple Quotes
  • Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Gun Quotes , Simple Quotes
  • From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be too contentious. I've been told that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for a while. For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Simple Quotes , America Quotes
  • People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Simple Quotes , Shopping Quotes