Plain Quotes
Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.
It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.
...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.
I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered that the dance floor was the perfect place to hide in plain sight.
A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.
People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.
The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.
My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.
You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.
It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
It doesn't matter how much money we have or how much we own here on Earth-we have to die and leave it all-that's the plain truth
When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.
Write your goals down. Write your goals on paper and not in your mind. That makes the vision plain. Spend quality time with yourself and review your life.
If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!
The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.
Outwardly I was all confidence and openness
Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled memories into the open plains of a new horizon. ("Going back to yesterday")
Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. ("Behind the frosted glass")
It is hardily credible of how great consequences before God the smallest things are
It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet
Things just are the way they are... However, NOWHERE in ANY law, dogma, or rules is it mandated -be it sanctioned, decreed, or wrought by divine imposition- that ANY OF IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY!
Charlie Everman understood, in the very depth of his soul, that God's mercies were new each morning.
He feels her heart race madly against his own and for a second he thinks it’s finally happened, he’s come alive.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!