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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. - Irving Babbitt Quotes
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it. - M F K Fisher Quotes
Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesnt let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman. - John Dingell Quotes
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward. - William Wilberforce Quotes
[T]heres no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple. - Chuck Sigars Quotes
I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing. - James Kirkwood Quotes
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. - Thaddeus Stevens Quotes
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. - Edmond About Quotes
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! - Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
The press dont like to say nice things because nice is boring. Its much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and were responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit. - Michael Bay Quotes
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. - Amelia Earhart Quotes
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on. - Joyce Maynard Quotes
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. - Uma Thurman Quotes
Its 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. - Jerry Garcia Quotes
There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didnt want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it. - Walter Lord Quotes
Its not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us. - Real Live Preacher Quotes
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. - William Wordsworth Quotes
None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act. - Sam Brownback Quotes
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. - Maya Angelou Quotes
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles. - Hedy Lamarr Quotes
In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare. - J B Priestley Quotes
In plain Texas talk, its do the right thing - Ross Perot Quotes
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. - H L Mencken Quotes
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find. - Dan Flavin Quotes
Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us. - Maude Adams Quotes
Like every aspect of cancer Ive weathered thus far, todays experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun. - April Winchell Quotes
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. - Joseph Franklin Rutherford Quotes
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. - Ernst Mach Quotes
Itll come to you in a month in a plain brown wrapper with no return address. - Gene Rayburn Quotes
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