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Last updated on October 1, 2024.
Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
And that is why their lovers are afraid
To tell them a plain story.
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.
Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.
Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.
Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.
I'm going to have wedge when guys are going have a 6-iron, plain and simple.
As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.
Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.
I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.
Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.
I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.
Trump eventually slurs anyone who inconveniences him, and the plain, measurable fact is that a large majority of Jewish American voters continue to vote Democrat.
The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.
I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
I was in love when I was in college; we all were. I remember how beautiful everybody was. Even the plain people looked beautiful.
It might sound unconvincing when an actor like me who has done 500 films says that television is more competitive than movies, but that is the plain truth.
Few provisions of the Constitution are more plain than Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7: 'No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.'
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.
Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.
People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.
No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.
I never found it frustrating not speaking.
Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
Not a deed would he do,
Not a word would he utter,
Till he's weighed its relation
To plain bread and butter.
Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.
The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.
Not only am I better looking.. I'm just plain better.
I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.
For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.
Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.
She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.
I am a woman, I am a minority person, and I speak in a very plain way. And I think that reaches people.
Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'
It truly amazes me all the things you can add and mix in to truly transform a plain old bowl of oatmeal.
