Top 1200 Plain Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.
...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.
Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.
The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
Plain free-weight squats work better for me than anything.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
Plain sugar cookies, no matter how well they are made, are a bit boring to me.
It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.
It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.
Greatness is the reward for genius... only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.
I would have liked to invent the plain white shirt, with a skirt and pants to go with it.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.
And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.
When you sign up for Team Canada, we look for the best way to do things, plain and simple.
I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
I like fresh, crisp, cool, plain white cotton sheets from Calvin Klein.
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
I ain't flash. I'm just plain old Shaun, the same as I was when I grew up in South London.
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.
There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."
I like going home, closing the door and being plain old Sarah.
For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.
Sometimes you've got to break the rules to make money, that's just plain and simple.
The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.
My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Boxing is not a bodybuilding sport, plain and simple. Your body isn't going to win a fight.
Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
We're just very much a plain-vanilla, long-only investment fund.
About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.
We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.
