Plain Quotes
1043 quotes by 810 authors
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Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described…
— Christopher Lasch
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I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour…
— Albert Einstein
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I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now…
— Rod McKuen
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...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no…
— Ayn Rand
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The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God in direct opposition.…
— John Bunyan
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It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it
— M.F.K. Fisher
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I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
— Frances Perkins
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It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having…
— John Jay Hooker
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As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.
— Anne Hutchinson
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Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either,…
— Kevin DeYoung
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If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got…
— Lawrence Bossidy
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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
— Brownie McGhee
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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of…
— Glen Cook
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The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that…
— John Knox
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It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
— John Wycliffe
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To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination…
— William Tyndale
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To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest,…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to…
— Thaddeus Stevens
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