#imply

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#damage #down #drag #economy #entire

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#after #approval #control #convinces #cookie

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#early #evolution #future #growing #growing up

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cool #economics #follow #generations #genes

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. ↗

— Renata Adler

#erases #experience #generation #history #own

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture. ↗

— William Albert Allard

#assignment #constitutes #contribution #core #culture

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#get #i #i can #i do #lines

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#convent #entering #great #great thing #simply

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#democratic #law-abiding #room #simply #state

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.' ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

#aside #basis #constantly #daily #daily basis