Plainly Quotes

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It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can. — Sargent Shriver
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the… — Lysander Spooner
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in… — William Tyndale
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never… — Alice Walker
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the… — H.G. Wells
Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do. I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see. — Dr. Seuss
Youâ€™re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?â€ Clive smiled. â€œI donâ€™t know, should I?â€ Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective,… — Ted Dekker
So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly… — Angela Carter
If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God. — H. L. Mencken
How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because… — Yann Martel
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility… — Chuck Palahniuk
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his… — George MacDonald
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think… — Marilynne Robinson
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look… — Lewis Carroll
Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger -… — Diana Gabaldon
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed… — Herman Melville
As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the letter had a… — Diana Gabaldon
To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they… — Diane Setterfield
The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place… — Warren Ellis

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