I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn’t simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination....

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Simply put, I’m glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.

This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there’s a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas – because they simply don’t know about its...

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn’t take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do – provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way,...

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate...

I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals.

I don’t see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don’t want collaborations regardless of their merit.

Sharing with just your friends doesn’t protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that...

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we...

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you’re always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.

I don’t think I’m curvaceous. It’s simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief.’

I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young...

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after...

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

My everyday life in which I do exactly the same things as everyone else should not inspire people, and yet I am constantly congratulated by strangers for simply existing.

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can’t explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

I simply can’t wear an outfit if I don’t feel that is right for me.

Happiness is in simplicity. To be happy, always try to have happy thoughts.

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

Tyrants have only one problem in life.They simply just wanna rule everything.

Being simple is something really good, making nothing simpler is probably better but the simplest way to adapt to adopt the real simplicity in the life to do everything for the humanity without seeking anything...

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad – simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Don’t put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

Life is simple and beautiful.