Plenty Quotes - Page 29

• I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Trying, Fancy

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Sower”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  Nate Berkus

  Home, Unique, Special You

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• While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Things I Love, Said, Clear

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• If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Gods Will, Ifs

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• I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great insight... But when the global financial crisis came along in 2008 it was scary times if you were in the middle of building $5 billion buildings. It wasn't perfect... I think that I am the luckiest person in Australia.

  James Packer

  Past, Thinking, Australia

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• There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

  Christopher Dodd

  Nuclear, Politics, Weapons

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• If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

  E. W. Howe

  Money, Men, Care

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• Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.

  Dave Barry

  Spring, Thinking, Self

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.2, Ballantine Books

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• In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

  Mac Thornberry

  Light, Energy, Goes On

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• Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn’t believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through your life to rise to - no, soar through - the occasion.

  Leigh Newman

  Dream, Believe, Reality

  "9 Almost Impossible Dreams You Can Never Give Up On" by Leigh Newman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Heaven, Vision

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.135, Routledge

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• Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

  Saul Bellow

  Crazy, Mental Illness, Evidence

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Mr. Sammler's Planet”, p.61, Odyssey Editions

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• I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

  Saul Bellow

  Children, Support, Cost

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

  Leonard Bernstein

  Play, Enthusiasm, Firsts

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• To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Play, Ease

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• Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest. There’s a great book inside, with recipes, pie history, and plenty of inspiration for gathering your friends together to see who can make the best pie. Plus, ribbons! And scorecards! This would be a great party.

  Shauna James Ahern

  Fun, Party, Book

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• I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

  Helen Fielding

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

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• There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

  Blaise Pascal

  World, All That Remains, Maxims

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• Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

  Bruce Catton

  Understanding, Saws, Patient

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

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• I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Thinking, Two

  Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

  Abraham Cowley

  Friends, Want, Wells

  Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”, p.89

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• Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Book, Wife, Reason

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• If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

  William Greider

  Country, Retirement, Years

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• Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

  Paul Davies

  Origin Of Life, Support, Stories

  "Life, but not as we know it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2010.

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• Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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