Plainly Quotes
194 quotes by 163 authors
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If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
— George Eliot
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The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other…
— Mark Twain
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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for…
— Walt Whitman
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Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality,…
— Lynne Truss
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Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of…
— Phylicia Rashad
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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world,…
— Joseph Butler
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We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation…
— Donald Watson
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How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated…
— Charles Darwin
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Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
— Gore Vidal
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
— Lucretius
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Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if…
— Golda Meir
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If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with…
— David Hare
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I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've always loved His creation. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean…
— Betty Cuthbert
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Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have…
— Galileo Galilei
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For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
— Dan Flavin
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
— John Ruskin
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