#simply

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #children #colleagues #debt #doing

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#days #disturbance #eventually #lived #may

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery. ↗

— David R. Brower

#capability #complicated #control #doing #enough

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. ↗

— David D. Burns

#bad #create #fool #misery #moods

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. ↗

— Ken Burns

#american #american music #armstrong #century #did

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. ↗

— William Burroughs

#function #functioning #happiness #happy #simply

I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue. ↗

— Lance Burton

#i #idea #next #no idea #simply

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#concerned #consequence #convertible #excellence #into

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#craft #divorce #film #going #hard