#simple

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons. ↗

— Masanobu Fukuoka

#simple-living #change

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#else #life #living #nothing #positively

The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted. ↗

— Patrick Gordon

#brass #delighted #free #free will #gave

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#arrangement #divisible #henry #henry james #i

We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#border #both #both sides #circumstances #comments

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#american politics #barack #because #black #cuz

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#blue #cure #did #dysfunction #electoral

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#apparently #call #emphasis #help #horn

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #deals #fact #faith #lies

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#connected #dependent #each #explained #few