Plain Quotes

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In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself. — Ashley Tisdale
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The… — Alexander Pope
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it… — Richard Dawkins
The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. — Newt Gingrich
It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering… — Mark Twain
Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer… — James Russell Lowell
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but… — Susan B. Anthony
The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as… — Thomas Jefferson
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something… — Thomas Sowell
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell… — Edmond Francois Valentin About
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. — Mary Augusta Ward
We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National… — Eamon de Valera
Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had… — Mark Sanford
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of… — James Jeans
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form… — Charles Kingsley
If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place… — Rumi
This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law,… — Joseph Story
The highest Beauty should be plain set. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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