Plenty Quotes - Page 9

• The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

  David Nicholls

  Self, One Day, Pleasure

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

  B. F. Skinner

  War, Believe, Men

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.221, Hackett Publishing

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• But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten to fifteen pounds of candy, a riot of colored wrappers and hopeful fonts,snub-nosed chocolate bars and SweeTARTS, the seductive rattle of Jujyfruits and Good & Plenty and lollipopsticks all akimbo, the foli ends of mini LifeSavers packs twinkling like dimes, and a thick sugary perfume rising up from the pillowcase.

  Steve Almond

  Beautiful, Halloween, Night

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America”

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• There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act.

  Anna Godbersen

  Promise, Use, Left

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• Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Textbooks, Littles, Firsts

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.54, A&C Black

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• If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Earthquakes, Hopeful

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2528, Delphi Classics

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• Who needs a house? I'm talking about your heart. You have plenty of guest rooms there. And that's what you do. You open your heart to people. You keep lovely little rooms in there, just waiting for your friends to come visit. People feel as if they can come right in, just as they are. You don't entertain, you love. That's what lasts. That's why people like me feel as if I will always be your friend. You hold a special place for me in your heart.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Heart, Talking, People

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• It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.

  Raymond Carver

  Writing, Expression, Talking

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose”, p.99, Vintage

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• Grocery shopping," Kira's gaze raked over him. "Well, honey, one thing about it, I don't think you have to worry about buying beef while you're out. It looks like you have plenty in residence as it is.

  Lora Leigh

  Thinking, Shopping, Worry

  Lora Leigh (2007). “Hidden Agendas”, p.75, Macmillan

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• I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.

  Sylvia Plath

  People, Looks, Should

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.60, Hamilton Books

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• The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Strong, Jobs, Responsibility

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice. Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him. "Yeah, reckon so," said Harry casually. "Got plenty of special features, hasn't it?" said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously. "Shame it doesn't come with a parachute - in case you get too near a Dementor." Crabbe and Goyle sniggered. "Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Voice, Mentor

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• Love me. Be with me." "That's enough?" "That's plenty.

  Susan Mallery

  Enough

  Susan Mallery (2011). “Only His”, p.208, Harlequin

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• If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

  Lydia Davis

  Thinking, People, Terror

  Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.57, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it.

  Meg Rosoff

  New York, Educational, Kids

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• Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Worry, Another Day, Tomorrow

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2000). “Sister of My Heart”, Anchor

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• There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sleep, Time To Sleep

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• He had fangs. So what? Plenty of things not a Dark-Hunter have fangs, including Hollywood actors and kids playing vampire. You should have checked his membership card before you attacked. Good grief, what if you’d run across a Masquerade group?” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Grief, Kids

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.99, Macmillan

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• Sorry, Sage. Last I checked, you aren’t an expert in social matters..." "At least I take action. You? You let the world go by without you. You have no spine. You don’t fight back." “You don’t know the first thing about me, Adrian Ivashkov. I fight back plenty.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Fighting, Firsts

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• ...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.

  Mira Grant

  Sky, Knowing, People

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• I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

  Haruki Murakami

  Might, Talent, Instinct

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.77, Random House

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• But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

  Philip Pullman

  Growing Up, Feelings, Lions

  Philip Pullman (2015). “His Dark Materials: The Complete Trilogy”, p.121, Random House

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• There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

  Charles Dickens

  Stationery, Comfortable

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Great Expectations: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Life, Self Improvement, Enjoy

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• I immediately felt better about killing him. I’ve never known a Trevor who wasn’t a total douchebag. It’s just one of those names that goes so nicely with selfish, arrogant, malicious behavior—and really, what did I know about this guy? Nothing, except that his name was Trevor and he’d been nabbed in the midst of breaking-and-entering. That was plenty.

  Cherie Priest

  Selfish, Names, Guy

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.46, Spectra

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