Simpler Quotations

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.

It is vitally important that we implement immigration reform. We need a bill that strengthens our borders and protects this nation, but that also makes it simpler for good people to become Americans.

People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic jams and minor quibbles with my husband Daniel pale in comparison with the worries that were faced on the home front and battlefield during the Second World War.

Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.

For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because those who believe in God believe that God is the Creator of the whole Universe and there is nothing that does not come from Him.

In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.

I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks.

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.

The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.

What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.

It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model.

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

My husband perpetually makes fun of me about my creams and my jars and potions and lotions, but its simpler than anyone makes it: clean, tone, keep yourself moisturized. The rest is internal: Protect yourself from the sun and drink water.

We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.

Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates.

Obviously, we wanted a better effort and we wanted to play smarter. We need to go back to basics and play a simpler game. Frustration is a big factor and hard to control, but we have to find a way.

Maybe the future isn't so bright. There's a lot of comfort in wrapping ourselves in a simpler time, and also in clothes less demanding of the perfect body. And perhaps it's a bit of a bow to a boomer population that has a little bit of a hard time with spandex.

I'd like to see them build a new operating system from the ground up that's much simpler and smaller.

We're committed to simpler solutions for our business partners and value their input. Adding these new investment options to existing products offers clients portfolio diversification without complication.

Simpler is better -- despite popular wisdom and a marketplace ingrained in the creation of products that are ever smaller, faster and more feature laden.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

From a technology standpoint there is very little new. We are putting it into packaging for simpler adoption.

We have to be more gritty, more hitting. We probably have to play much simpler hockey.

People make the great mistake with action heroes. They think that because generally the plots are simpler and their behavior is one-note that they can't act. But most of the time they can.

People have increasingly been attracted to the cleaner, simpler living space that a loft can provide. People are more accustomed to or hungry for the urban lifestyle.

People aren't going to be happy if it goes down this way. I hope we get a simpler solution.

Maybe it's a blessing to come on the road. We've had a lot of success on the road this season. We seem to play a simpler game.

I think the smart money is on smaller, simpler drones and the operating systems that make them effective. That's where Lockheed is well positioned to add value.

Our study shows that 'crystal fusion' is a mature technology with considerable commercial potential. This new device is simpler and less expensive than the previous version, and it has the potential to produce even more neutrons.

I think Italian food is easier to like and love and less intimidating than most. So people overestimate my contribution, not in a bad way or a good way. It's just that my food is simpler than a lot of other chefs' food, and that makes it more accessible, and possibly easier to eat.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

We haven't had the long queues we had before, but that may be in part because the procedure was simpler ... just two candidates.

We had to start playing a simpler game. Get the puck quick, get it deep and get the first hit. Very basic hockey.

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

The prosecutors saw the problem they were having in Arthur Anderson and so they got Congress to pass a much simpler statute.

We do appreciate Kyle and others bringing these barriers to our attention. We're interested in finding solution to these barrier problems. It might be simpler than you thought it would be.

We're trying to make it clearer and simpler and more straightforward.

When I was just acting on the show, I learned my lines, went to sleep, then woke up and went to work. Now it's sort of become an obsession. I like the success. I'm thrilled with the way things have gone-but my life was simpler 10 years ago.

Every place we looked, the simpler the dosing, the fewer the errors. And if they had an error, it was bad news.

Token ring was a very elegant way of sharing bandwidth on a LAN, ... What killed it was LAN switching because all that matters there is price per port. Ethernet was simpler and supported by more vendors, so it was cheaper to build Ethernet chip sets.

We sell items on eBay. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

The special-needs cases are more tragic in some ways, but they can be simpler conceptually, ... Because it's more black and white. But the ones that are gray are where you have disparate incomes.

The simpler kinds of tests for antibodies won't work,

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.

The simpler the message, the better the memorial will be.

The simpler the plan, the better because there's a fighting chance you'll understand your bill.

We've put in a simpler offensive system where there's more straight-on blocking. Not only for the kids that have played, but probably more than half the team has never played football before.

Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

On Tuesday, September 13, 2005, Microsoft announced to its employees and that it was reorganizing the company into a simpler organization in which executives much further down the chain would have direct decision-making capabilities, allowing the company to move more quickly in this ever-changing market and compete better with companies such as Google and Apple. The reorg was announced publicly a week later, with Microsoft also announcing that group vice president Jim Allchin would retire once Windows Vista ships in late 2006. Succeeding Allchin is Kevin Johnson, who will oversee the new Platform Products & Services division. Jeff Raikes, the head honcho of the unit previous responsible for Microsoft Office, was named president of the Microsoft Business Division. And Xbox's Robbie Bach was named president of Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division, which will combine the Xbox with Microsoft's other hardware products,

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Something that goes on the desktop has to be a simpler and more structured tool with fewer configuration options. It has to be running in the background.

DPM is all about enabling simpler storage management and reducing the amount of manual labor that customers must dedicate to backup and recovery,

Developing point-of-care tests to direct sleeping sickness treatment will greatly simplify patient care, allowing for early case detection, simpler and safer treatment, and higher rates of cure that will improve disease management and could lead to the elimination of the disease as a public health problem.

Now again, there are so many gadgets on cameras now that people abandon these simpler instruments for the more sure instruments.

There's no perfect formula, but the NSW system has too many exclusions and exemptions. We agree with the philosophy, but there has to be a simpler formula.

This album is more user-friendly and easier for people to see it, ... We made the picture simpler and clearer.

Individuals and businesses must participate in a national discussion about a simpler tax system, one that collects sufficient revenue to meet appropriate federal responsibilities, but one resting on a broader, fairer tax base without penalizing saving and investing, the backbone of a strong, decentralized and thriving economy.

I kind of like this one. I think it's simpler to operate, and it's simpler to read. But I would rather have my old one.

I like double albums, ... And this was kind of a double album. And with double albums, sometimes you say, 'Well this is a whole lot to process.' But then you listen to it again and you start to develop favorites and it gets a character all its own. And then you think maybe you see this movie later on TV and you start to think, 'Well, you know what? I get it. That all these themes are supposed to be part of a bigger simpler theme.'

Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordinary Australians.

Slow food, free-range, no steroids, eat local, and natural winemaking are all part of a general yearning for simpler times. But the fact is that most winemakers these days, big and small, have drastically lessened the use of chemicals in the vineyard, embracing such concepts as organically grown, biodynamic, and sustainable.

Taxes, Social Security and health care are a heavy burden on emerging and growing businesses. In calling for reform in all these areas, business owners are saying that they want relief -- a simpler system that will allow them to focus more on the needs of their businesses.

Everyone has more confidence at home. We battle harder at home and we get some wins that way. We need to work harder overall, especially on the road. We need to play a simpler game. When you simplify and keep things low-scoring, then you have a chance to win.

I want to create, however, a new breed, a new kind of computer system that is much simpler that allows kids to programme once again.

Consumers can avoid the 'feature fatigue' trap by first trying out a product, and comparing several, before buying. Chances are they will be more satisfied with a simpler product with less features.

It's second nature to play a simpler game on the road. That's probably why we have a better record than at home. The proof is in the pudding.

It's probably far simpler in many ways to see some sort of financial institution, or that type of outcome to the sale process.

The Internet has made it so much simpler for people who want a house-sitter or people who are looking to live rent-free.

They could bypass all the federal stuff and get in touch with a city and say, 'What can we help you with?' ... It's just a common sense approach. The simpler it is, the more effective it is.

In 90 seconds and three or four clicks of the mouse, you can back up My Documents remotely. It's an order of magnitude simpler than tape backup.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say ""give them up,"" for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

Internet e-mail is simpler and cheaper, but you won't get integrated calendaring, scheduling, database functionality or applications,

In the most obvious sense, if there's just one fund, that's simpler for everybody, ... But at the same time, when people are being incredibly generous and trying hard to help, my hat's off to them.

Buying transportation should be simpler than it is. Carriers, however, have been forced to make it complex in order to provide shippers with the minute details they need to offer the best service to their customers.

By achieving its technology milestones, OATH stands as a growing and influential force in establishing specifications for an open-standards-based approach to strong authentication. We're delighted to be a part of this industry-wide movement to make it simpler for enterprises and individuals to conduct secure online transactions and communications.

So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.

The Coke bottle is a masterpiece of scientific, functional planning. In simpler terms, I would describe the bottle as well thought out, logical, sparing of material and pleasant to look at.

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

As rich media becomes more and more prevalent across the web, advertisers are demanding tools that make the complete value chain of rich media ad creation, deployment, execution and measurement simpler and more efficient. Today's announcement emphasizes our commitment to enabling our customers to take advantage of technology innovation to make their brands stand out online.

It's simpler to prove whether the wetland is adjacent to the stream or not, and then if he applies for a permit you can decide whether the impacts of his wetland on the stream are significant enough that he should or should not get a permit.

It was simpler and easier. I think perhaps in many ways it was also a comfort to families to have their loved ones right there on the farm.

It's an image of another, much simpler time.

It should really be contemporary, and we should be answering people's needs -- how to make it simpler and better.

I am pleased that the compromise amendment before the Constitutional Convention was defeated. Now, we can work to put on the ballot a simpler amendment that simply defines marriage as between a man and a woman.