Plain Quotes

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Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that… — Ben Stein
The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is… — James Surowiecki
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. — Twyla Tharp
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its… — Henry David Thoreau
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was… — Uma Thurman
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. — Harry S. Truman
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. — George Washington
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. — Evelyn Waugh
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. — Gerard Way
Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food… — Andrew Weil
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. — William Wordsworth
No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and… — Julian Baggini
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful… — Henry B. Eyring
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much. — Colm Toibin
Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist… — Jessica Valenti
Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is… — A. E. Housman
We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I… — John Fante
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,… — Matthew Arnold
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. — Douglas Adams

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