Plenty Quotes - Page 38

• Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

  Phoebe Cary

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Giving

  Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.153

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• To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

  William James

  Truth, Self, Giving

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• I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?

  Dee Dee Myers

  Mistake, Thinking, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think the more music becomes something you could simply download and have on your iPod, I think to a lot of people that is plenty, but to some people, they still want these artifacts that are touchable, and you can smell them, and look at them, and hold them and just have other dimensions of experience with this music.

  Wayne Coyne

  Thinking, Smell, Ipods

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Bird, Mind, Doe

  Interview with Jennifer Vogel, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• I always plan the whole story in some detail, long before I start writing the actual thing. But even doing that, I find that there is plenty of room for spontaneity. Often the characters will lead the story off in a direction I hadn't originally intended!

  Raymond Buckland

  Writing, Character, Long

  Source: paganpages.org

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• I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.

  Greg Graffin

  Strong, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think in terms of what's going to be successful. I have plenty of friends who make very small movies and friends who make giant, $150 million blockbusters, and the thing that I really admire is, the ones who do it well do it very sincerely.

  James Ponsoldt

  Successful, Thinking, Giants

  Source: onlineathens.com

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• There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.

  Lizz Winstead

  People, Listening, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.ew.com

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• It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Media, Everyday, Poverty

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

  Mark Teixeira

  Baseball, Sorry, Opportunity

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There are plenty of directors who work with the same actors over and over, many more times than I have. Like I have worked with Bill Nighy more times than I have worked with Kate, but I'm not married to Bill Nighy.

  Len Wiseman

  Directors, Actors, Bills

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• There are plenty of people over there who understand the difference. And there are plenty of people over here who understand the difference. It's still one world and it has been for a long time.

  Christoph Waltz

  Differences, Long, People

  Source: collider.com

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• And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sight, Effort, Being Thankful

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Dream, Hard Work, Athlete

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• I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.

  Ronaldo

  Soccer, Thinking, Goal

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• Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

  Bob Marley

  Song, Inspiration, Mean

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• There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.

  Jill Bennett

  Choices, Important, Hollywood

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

  Steve Forbes

  Never Quit, Juice, Economy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

  George Allen

  Life, Past, Giving

  George Allen (1990). “Strategies for winning: a top coach's game plan for victory in football and in life”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.

  Scott Adams

  People, Stupidity, Mind

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.164, Penguin

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• My life is only important if i can help plenty of people

  Bob Marley

  People, Important, Helping

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• When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

  John Lubbock

  Taken, Sleep, Air

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• We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.

  William Law

  God, Reality, Keys

  William Law (1836). “Extracts from The spirit of prayer”, p.2

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