Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
John Updike

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
Tadao Ando

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Thomas Huxley

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
Angela Davis

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
Angela Davis

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
Angela Davis

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
Man Ray

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
Neil Gaiman

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

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
Aristophanes

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber