“Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.” IfsWayWantSidesSimpleTalkingOppositesTablesStudiosNegotiating Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSoundSimpleTalkingTelevisionPerfectly Good Author:Paul McGann
“There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.” KnowsWayFactsHappensSimpleTalkingMediaDangerousPoliticianPressesBottomComplicatedBetter WaysSummarizing Author:Seth Gordon
“Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.” SaidSpiritSimpleTalkingDoubtToo MuchWorstHolySpeechPerfectionFaultsTongueGentleHoly SpiritAttachmentVirtuousDefectsCharitableAmiableTalking Too Much Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.” ReasonUseWantedFacesUsedSimpleTalkingWeekNew YorkDrugMarriedStonesDecidedAddictionBoxesMonstersRationalInsultDrsFlewMedicationDrug Use Book:Wishful Drinking Source: Wishful Drinking
“When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military purpose. A cyber weapon could be something as simple as an old virus from 1995 that just happens to still be effective if you use it for that purpose.” PeopleIfsMeanStillsUseHappensUsedPurposeSimpleTalkingMilitaryWeaponsProgramDigitalReally MeanVirusesMaliciousCyber Author:Edward Snowden
“If you've done your preparation and you know the team of people that you're working with, then it makes life an awful lot easier. I still get nervous all the time. I think the best thing to do is to take a deep breath, make it simple, know what you're talking about, don't try and be fancy, don't try and be clever and just enjoy the experience.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingStillsDoneEnjoySimpleTalkingTeamEasierBreathsCleverNervousAwfulPreparationBest ThingsThings To DoFancyDeep BreathTake A Deep Breath Author:Jill Douglas
“my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.” ThinkingIdeasPhilosophyBeliefSimpleResultsTalkingMysterySilentDeeperTongueFleshInstantTouchedMortalitySacramentsEucharistMonologuesMystery Of Love Book:Broken Vessels: Essays Source: Broken Vessels: Essays
“Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.” OrderSimplePleasureTalkingFlowerGardenIntenseApplesAdamThirstEdenGarden Of EdenSimple PleasuresThirst For KnowledgePicking Flowers Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton