Best simple & simple-words Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today.”

Heart Mean Shows Today Spirit Jesus Christ Simple Christianity Mystery Praying My Heart Holy Blessing Depth Holy Spirit I Pray Wondrous Christmas Day Simple Words

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.”

Writing Earth Universe Simple Pages Dare Tales Not Sure Complexity Attributes Notorious Simple Words

Book:Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness

Source: Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness

“The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.”

Firsts Mean Made Law Language Simple Rooms Speech Presses Congress Amendments Freedom Of Speech First Amendment Inference Simple Words

Author:Hugo Black

“O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting”

Simple Simple Words

Author:Jan Struther

“The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.”

Simple Common Clear Philosopher Absence Usage Jargon Simple Words Erudition

Author:Andre Maurois

“I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection”

Ifs Heart Use Feelings Simple My Heart Gratitude Lays Notes Dear Affection Concerts Daddy Simple Words Filial

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.”

People Two Whole Together Simple Produce Kissing Ordinary Sake Communion One You Love Being Together Simple Words

Author:Elfriede Jelinek

“One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?”

Ifs Stills Simple Noses Conspiracy Ugh Simple Words

Author:Moby

“Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.”

Stories Remember Chance Simple College Consequence Decided Versions Crafts Tonight More Time Yale Simple Words

Author:Phil Vischer

“Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.”

Love Heart Art Feelings Artist Simple Love Is Mere Sensitive Sublime Precaution Withering Simple Words

Author:Honore de Balzac

“But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.”

Men Speak Simple Son Weak Sympathy Now And Then Simple Words Friendless

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night.”

Night Next Enjoy Simple Liberty Morning Regret Boards Simple Words

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.”

Stills Poetry Simple Poet Genius Kings Succeed Crafts Mask Weed Fiery Simple Words

Book:Emerson's Literary Criticism

Source: Emerson's Literary Criticism

“I am constantly surprised that the simple word 'feminism' raises more eyebrows and initiates more sad-faced head-shaking than any elaborate stream of invective I have ever leveled at either the I.R.S. or the D.M.V.”

Simple Feminism Raises Streams Eyebrows Shaking Initiate Simple Words

Author:Gina Barreca

“Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."”

Has Beens Said Bigs Remember Simple Pieces Written Honest Behavior Music Is Agree Blur Simple Words Personal Behavior

Author:Frank Sinatra

“The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.”

Dream Earth Three Simple Aspiration Fragile American Dream Simple Words

Book:United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

Source: United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

“Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.”

Made Moments Action Together Simple Taken Our Lives Determine Seeds Gestures Harvest Words And Actions Simple Words

Author:Wayne Muller

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