#simple

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#simple #simplicity #simplicity

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bad #because #commit #dying #i

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#awareness #come #contentment #grace #grateful

I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible. ↗

— Raul Labrador

#being responsible #cutting #i #i think #keep

I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance. ↗

— Greg Lake

#band #call #chance #context #day

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#associate #blessed #came #children #dividing

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#big #big head #get #got #head

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#formula #imagination #instantly #me #need

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#criminals #explanation #eyes #gangs #gentlemen

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week. ↗

— Charles Keating

#director #eight #harder #indeed #lot