Plain Quotes - page 29

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research. (Iain Banks)
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. View quote
Jerry Garcia
In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing' View quote
Ross Perot
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. View quote
Maurice Sendak
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct The language plain, and incidents well linkd Tell not as new what evry body knows and, new or old, still hasten to a close. View quote
William Cowper
A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His. View quote
William Law
The seditious rebels claim that we are the rulers of Manchuria and only later penetrated central China to become its rulers. Their prejudices concerning the division of their and our country have caused many vitriolic falsehoods. What these rebels have not understood is the fact that Manchuria is for the Manchus the same as the birthplace is for the people of the central plain. Shun belonged to the Eastern Yi, and King Wen to the Western Yi. Does this fact diminish their virtues? View quote
Yongzheng Emperor
We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now. Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people. View quote
Ron Reagan
However plain and obvious these reasons may be, so that no man of ordinary intelligence, reflecting upon the matter, could fail to arrive at them, it is nevertheless true that a great many persons do habitually disregard them in weighing testimony. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
It is plain that the present system of intensive farming cannot be defended. ... Let us then be vegetarians, at least. For those who have recognized flesh-eating for what it is, the merest addiction, and one, as Shelley saw, to ‘kindle all putrid humours in (our) frame' ... for such moralists the step is easy. It is not necessary, rather it is incompetent, to kill and torture animals to eat. (Stephen R. L. Clark)
There is no authority in the Bible for a woman to have a place of supremacy in the church. When she takes it she steps out of her right place. She goes against the plain teaching of The Bible when she takes the place of the authoritative teacher in the church. View quote
Ray Comfort
I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity. View quote
Lee Child
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches. View quote
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong. View quote
Howard Dean
The idea that God doesn't care about his children is rooted in a lie, plain and simple. View quote
Bill Hybels
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing. View quote
Mitch Daniels
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. View quote
A. E. Housman
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. View quote
Alan Watts
As to my body and burial, I do leave it to the disposition and discretion of my executor, hereafter named, but with this special charge, that it be done as privately as may be, without any state, acknowledging myself to be unworthy of the least outward regard in this world, and unworthy of any remembrance, that hath been so great a sinner, and I do further charge and desire that no monument be made for me, but at the utmost a plain stone with this inscription only - Vermis sum. View quote
William Lenthall
Little I ask, my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own;- And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. View quote
Jane Austen
Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch. View quote
Francis Bacon
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. View quote
Kenneth Tynan