Top 20 Platitudinous Quotes

#1. When one seeks assurance, there's none from those who respond, Now, don't you worry about a thing. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't have asked. If you are concerned, it's nice to know that those you query are, too. I'll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.

Malcolm Forbes

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#2. 'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.

David Harsanyi

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#3. To Buckley, she embodied the worst of what in subsequent decades would be called political correctness: the mindless application to every issue of a platitudinous egalitarianism whose practical effect invariably is to expand the reach of totalitarianism.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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#4. What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

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#5. I have very strongly this feeling ... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

Bryan Magee

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#6. Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens
of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

H.L. Mencken

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#7. Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Ovid

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#8. The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

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#9. Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#10. I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

Jacki Weaver

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#11. You can't make someone do something they don't want to, but if you are kind about it, you can convince them to do the right thing, even if they are uncertain what that is.
--Jala, Healer to the House of Soris

D.G. Novak

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#12. The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.

Robert Penn Warren

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#13. unfavorable feeling,

Alexandre Dumas

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#14. It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

Henry Rollins

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#15. Fear is the cancer

Simon Holt

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#16. The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii.

Samuel Johnson

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#17. What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

Karl Jaspers

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#18. If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.

Robert H. Jackson

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#19. I know mine own!"--Walter Emmett Velvet, the Antichrist

A.R. Braun

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#20. Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.

Ellen Pompeo

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