Top 100 Plainly Quotes
#1. We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
Marlon James
#2. It was tall, made of pale blue light, a creature with long arms and long legs and the shadow of a smile, and above it all, eyes that shone bluer still than its body. "What do you seek in this place?" the shade asked plainly.
Robin Sloan
#3. If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.
Sherwood Anderson
#4. 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 direction upon it, the intended recipient was obvious, the seal indicated plainly who had written it, and he did not waste his time in writing to fools.
Diana Gabaldon
#5. I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
Jane Austen
#6. When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
Edward Abbey
#7. 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 successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H.G.Wells
#8. I'll fix your toes, he said, as plainly as if he'd told me to do my homework. He dropped onto his knees in front of me, then stopped, tilting his head as if trying to figure out where to put himself.
C.L.Stone
#9. We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
Lucretius
#10. The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk where they are least expected, and that they may escape the notice of the most experienced and conscientious worker.
John William Strutt
#11. Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#12. It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don't mean gaining "self-knowledge" or understanding one's "true nature" but rather how at some point you can see most plainly that this is what you do, this is how you fit in the wider ecology.
Chang-rae Lee
#13. Visits. Your parents plainly think you're a loser. You don't have the guts to walk out of even the
Jojo Moyes
#14. Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become.
John Ridley
#15. It's plainly obvious that Jay is about as homosexual as Gerard Butler in the movie 300.
L. H. Cosway
#16. It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
Sargent Shriver
#17. It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else ... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
Dan Flavin
#18. As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven.
Francis Chan
#19. The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.
Noam Chomsky
#20. Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
Ai Weiwei
#21. For I suspect the next world will more plainly be a going on with this than most people think - only it will be much better for some, and much worse for others, as the Lord has taught us in the parable of the rich man and the beggar.
George MacDonald
#22. Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.
Corliss Lamont
#24. No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Arnold Bennett
#25. Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words 'Thus it plainly appears', I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard study will alone enable me to discover how it plainly appears.
Nathaniel Bowditch
#26. CHRIST'S LIFE ILLUSTRATES PLAINLY THAT THE CROWN OF VICTORY IS FORGED FROM THE GOLD OF OBEDIENCE.
Calvin Miller
#27. Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.
William Stringfellow
#28. Pray, do not mock me.
I am a very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
William Shakespeare
#29. wild discipline by a dozen red-shirted men. The remaining half of the black-armored Arsiyah dismounted to confront the barred gate. They could not know, as Zelikman saw plainly from the top of the rise, that the Rus had abandoned, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say they
Michael Chabon
#30. The ending is immense. Tell it plainly".
Philip Roth
#31. The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.
James K. Polk
#32. After all, there is no advice which I can give you which you will not find plainly set down in the Book your mother taught you to reverence and love; and I therefore commend you to God, and to the word of His grace.
George E. Sargent
#33. She knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died. This was a simple fact.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#34. The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
John Locke
#35. Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'
George Whitefield
#36. I am interested in those truths that are yet unknown, it is only so that they might in time, be made known- or to put it more plainly, so that in time I might come to know them." P 502
Eleanor Catton
#37. Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
Jonathan Edwards
#38. 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 is a retarded way to run a species.
Warren Ellis
#39. You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.
J.K. Rowling
#40. When she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire
William Faulkner
#41. The wish to gain complete possession of somebody is expressed most plainly by jealousy. Jealousy is never a sign of love. It only indicates fear of not being able to hold another person.
Rudolf Dreikurs
#42. We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.
Donald Watson
#43. I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.
Chantal Joffe
#44. The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
Stanley Kubrick
#45. Put plainly, there is a natural moral law, existing in reality, i.e., not invented by man, which transcends and trumps our desires. Something is right or wrong, whether we like it or not.
William Shakespeare
#46. Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#47. Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
Abraham Lincoln
#48. Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
Christopher Hitchens
#49. Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. The end is so immense, it is its own poetry. It requires little rhetoric. Just state it plainly.
Philip Roth
#51. When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it.
Carl Sagan
#52. For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One
Bertrand Russell
#54. If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
George Eliot
#55. Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources ... The factions with the best strategies, most efficient organization, and access to resources will plainly have the advantage and very possibly, the ultimate victory.
James Davison Hunter
#57. I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.
Nikolai Gogol
#58. Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
Maria Montessori
#59. But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.
J.C. Ryle
#60. Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.
Gregory Benford
#61. It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
S.D. Gordon
#62. Speak plainly, sir.'
'*Sir*? I say, Lyd. Are you always so formal with men you've made love with?'
The whip of her head caused the bird [on her hat] to saw wildly, like a famished woodpecker in range of a tree.
Meredith Duran
#63. The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
#64. Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.
E. Nesbit
#65. And he who pursues pleasure will not abstain from injustice, and this is plainly impiety.
Marcus Aurelius
#66. If you live your life and don't confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood, I'm going to say this very plainly, you're going straight to hell with a nonstop ticket.
John Hagee
#67. For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.
Jean De La Bruyere
#68. What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.
Alice Hoffman
#69. 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 their mother tongue.
William Tyndale
#70. Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?
Georgette Heyer
#71. Then it came to her plainly what she felt about Jack's return. So simple. It was disappointment that he had not stayed away. Just a little longer. Nothing more than that. Disappointment.
Ian McEwan
#72. Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
Antonio Machado
#73. He plainly perceived this truth, the basis of his life henceforth, that so long as she should be alive, so long as he should have her with him, he should need nothing except for her, and fear nothing save on her account.
Victor Hugo
#74. Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. - Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus
Peter Godfrey-Smith
#75. Cows eat grass and silage. This is melting the ice caps and killing us all. So they need a new foodstuff: something that is rich in iron, calcium and natural goodness. Plainly they cannot eat meat so here is an idea to chew on. Why not feed them vegetarians?
Jeremy Clarkson
#76. I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.
Bill Nye
#77. Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?
Julie Otsuka
#78. Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.
Michael Flynn
#79. When you do not know of a thing say so plainly.
Umar
#80. She's always been the one to tell me about her bedroom adventures, not the other way around. To put it plainly, I have no problem talking about other people having sex, but talking about me having sex, well, that's a whole other kettle of uncomfortable collar fiddling.
L. H. Cosway
#81. Plainly, she is quite besotted by him, ... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life ... little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.
Philippa Gregory
#82. Plainly I was not interested, being chosen but not chooser.
Morrissey
#83. He had been able to repress every disrespectful word; but the flashing eye, the gloomy and troubled brow, were part of a natural language that could not be repressed,
indubitable signs, which showed too plainly that the man could not become a thing.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#84. This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'
John Calvin
#85. I am learning there is much more to the world than can be plainly seen.
Kristen Britain
#86. Lastly, she knew one other thing, and this was the most important realization of all: she knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died. This was a simple fact. This
Elizabeth Gilbert
#87. Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.
Lynne Truss
#88. We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.
Reginald Heber
#89. Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.
Ravi Zacharias
#90. That many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end. That this appeared plainly by their works, and was the reason why we see so little solid virtue.
Brother Lawrence
#91. Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
John Ridley
#92. It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
Homer
#93. The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
Gore Vidal
#94. Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger - and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation.
Diana Gabaldon
#95. We are out in the middle of nowhere, as we can see - as you can plainly see.
Kurt Meyer
#96. 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
#97. There is the matter of the girl, niece and heiress to the dead man. She is of great beauty," said Cadfael plainly, asserting his right to recognise and celebrate even the beauty of women, though their enjoyment he had now voluntarily forsworn,
Ellis Peters
#98. Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
Michel De Montaigne
#99. Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#100. I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.
George Herbert
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