#simple

Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#answer #asked #badly #been #change

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#enlightened #false #free #free society #lie

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#geography #latin #like #managed #philosophy

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ↗

— James Thurber

#enough #even #face #gone #long

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#challenging #clean #me #melody #now

What we do as a society is seek simple answers. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#seek #simple #society

So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him! ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#afraid #basically #him #important #many

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom. ↗

— Scott Walker

#am #big #big government #bosses #did

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#beg #boon #fate #fears #i

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#common-sense #concerned #dealt #feeling #had