Plain Quotes

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. H. L. Mencken
Day Great Heart Will Glorious White White House Folks Some Adorned Moron Reach House Plain Land Downright Last Desire
There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete. Sheri L. Dew
Life Love You Struggle People Old Will Made Exhausted Earth Though Kind Some Mortal Disappoint Veil Feel Between Days Concrete Heaven Plain Them Appetite Reinforced Defeated
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! Samuel Adams
Words Will Tools Tyrant How Plain Meaning Meaning Of Strangely
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H. L. Mencken
Great Me People Intelligence World Money Lost Great Masses Records No-One Employed Know Underestimating Masses Years Plain Plain People Far Agents Help Ever
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. Muhammad Ali
People Matter Hating Hating People Color Wrong Because Does Just Which Plain
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 plain. Henry David Thoreau
Nature Will Our Eye Insect Bear Inspection Lay Take Smallest Leaf Invites She Closest Plain Us View Her Level
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population. Sam Harris
Truth Angry Atheist Live Society Spoken Without Am Offending Cannot Which Plain Population
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. George McGovern
Love Patriotism Acceptance Country Enough Higher Highest Blind Call Policy Official Plain Deep Her
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
Work Time You Political Old Confuse Trick Plain Convince
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. W. E. B. Du Bois
Justice Legal Political Consistency Important More Precedence Than Plain Right
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. Katharine Hepburn
Beautiful Women Men About More Know Beautiful Women Than Plain
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Success Great Girl Pretty Girl Carefully Pretty She Were Plain Social Success Is Who Her Cards Plays
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. C. S. Lewis
Word Promises Long Direct Implement Always Plain Prefer Them Keep Vague
We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings. Carl Sagan
Life Animals Rich Nothing Community Our Hunt Out Sexual Some About Small Develop Almost Almost Nothing Know Years Years Ago Intellectual Intellectual Life Surroundings Children Plain Social Million Start Million Years
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away. Christina Rossetti
Day You Eyes Say Facts Since Blind Where Plain Might Turn Your Show Away
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. Oliver Cromwell
You Nothing Else Rather Had He Call Knows Than Which Loves Plain Fights Captain
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. Steven Pinker
Truth Time People Simple Long Hypocrisy Other Others Innuendo Say Lay Talk Lines Lot Expect Role Same Human Same Time Mean Plain Manner Engage Profess Each Universal Playing Vagueness
When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight. Marianne Williamson
Today Politics Picture Devil Big Sight Hiding Details More Devils Than Big Picture Often Just Plain
It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices. Coretta Scott King
People Care Our About Except Through Prices Consumer Excessive Cheap Labor dont Care Plain Them Poor Exploit Poor People
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. Evelyn Waugh
Manners Pretty Get Anything Plain Away Need
Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents. Katharine Hepburn
Love People Try About Only Soon Talents Know Exhaust Impression Very Plain Plain People Create Really Hard Fascinating
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one. Penelope Lively
Life Beautiful Woman Beautiful Woman Way Intrigued Physical Physical Appearance Direct Than Person Often Happen Which Plain Appearance Differently Things Things Happen
Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. Steve Jobs
Experience Fault Voting Job Responsibility Down Think Complete Our Par About Individual Take Consumer Simply Thumbs Up Plain Customer User Who Company
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. Twyla Tharp
Experience Old Degree Some More Optimism Than Behind Energizing Plain Much Certain Certain Degree Cynicism
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. Amelia Earhart
Worth Flying Price Sailing Plain Might Fun
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. Christine Lavin
People Nuts Fine Fine Line Eccentric Rut Between Line Very Just Plain Groove Who
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