#simply

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle. ↗

— Paula Cole

#big #couple #fact #had #handle

I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important. ↗

— Albert Finney

#doing #feel #get #great #great qualities

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch? ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#consulting #gives #god #him #honoring

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#characters #deal #essentially #events #grow

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#ahead #convincing #following #ground #leadership

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#controlled #going #horse #i #i see

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#art #artists #call #likely #make

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#ecstasy #even #feet #freely #itself

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#doubt #great #him #his #know

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security. ↗

— David Cameron

#afghanistan #clear #create #democracy #frankly