#simple

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. ↗

— John Adams

#charm #ear #ever #everything #eye

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#cut #cutting #dictatorships #down #expedient

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#frame #game #good #keep #manager

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#hard #make #simple #very #worked

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#assassinations #dispositions #friendly #give #ill

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#call #double #first #i #objects

Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#adapts #because #easy #hamlet #hard

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple. ↗

— Yitzhak Shamir

#fulfill #israel #land #settlement #simple

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways. ↗

— William Shatner

#blood #drink #handsome #healthy #how

If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not. ↗

— Grace Slick

#gay #i #kind #life #lot