Quotes with plenty

  • It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
  • The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.
  • If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
  • When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue. And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
  • There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
  • He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
  • But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
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  • Bruce Catton Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Thomas Love Peacock The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Adam Schiff Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Brad Gilbert At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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  • Wernher Von Braun Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
    Wernher Von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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  • Dr. James C. Dobson Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
    Dr. James C. Dobson
    American evangelical Christian author
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  • Bobby Doerr Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.
    Bobby Doerr
     
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  • Bernadette Peters Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • George Bernard Shaw Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Anne McCaffrey I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Carlos Alazraqui If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
    Carlos Alazraqui
    American stand-up comedian, actor and singer (1962 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bo Bennett If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Ban Kimoon In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • William Shakespeare In delay there lies no plenty.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Herbert Hoover In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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