#simply

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#contains #fire #food #home #house

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#ambitious #because #become #behind #effectively

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#away #fade #parties #political #political parties

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#case #escape #hard #insists #poverty

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#babies #false #grieve #loss #love

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#bravest #break #breath #catch #deliberately

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany. ↗

— Erik Larson

#around #by the people #chaotic #character #country

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#get #kill #man #now #now and then

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#ability #artistic #both #burning #eat

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#beasts #because #cannot #capitalists #criminals