Plied Quotes

#1. Still he plied the lash without stint upon my poor body, until it seemed that the lacerated flesh was stripped from my bones at every stroke. A man with a particle of mercy in his soul would not have beaten even a dog so cruelly.

Solomon Northup

#2. Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

James Vila Blake

#3. I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

S.J Perelman

#4. All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

Lewis Carroll

#5. Are you referring to the day you instructed me to 'follow the white rabbit,' plied me with absinthe and brownies, and tried to have your way with me? Didn't take long for you to lose your romantic streak, did it?

Elle Lothlorien

#6. ACKBAR - O knavery Most vile, O trick of Empire's basest wit. A snare, a ruse, a ploy: and we the fools. What great deception hath been plied today - O rebels, do you hear? Fie, 'tis a trap!

Ian Doescher

#7. If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Gautama Buddha

#8. I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

Gene Kelly

#9. If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#10. I truly wish I could sing.

Martha Hunt

#11. Mobile is important, and coming faster than most people in this room realize.

Matt Cutts

#12. She is here
because no-one else was there when worn-to-skeleton
her enemy died. Her love. Her twin.
Marghanita dreamed the intravenous, the intensive
the stainless steel
before she ever saw them. She's not practical,
you know, they used to say.
She's the artist, she got away.

Adrienne Rich

#13. There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

Alfred North Whitehead

#14. Which is how most people acted when it came to temptation. They gave in. And we should never forget, thought Isabel, that every one of us is capable of doing the same thing if the game that we see for ourselves is large enough.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. I won't stop you. I want this to happen, because I want you to be safe. And yet I want to be with you. The two desires are impossible to reconcile.

Stephenie Meyer

#16. The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#17. If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

Patrick Califia-Rice

#18. I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

Gertrude Stein

#19. Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.

Donald Trump