Plaintively Synonym Quotes & Sayings

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am. — Margaret Thatcher

Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take. — Terry Tempest Williams

It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real. — Arthur Miller

Time means little; I never notice its passing. — Stephenie Meyer

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week. — Elizabeth Grace Saunders

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews. — Barry Sonnenfeld

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty. — Wendell Phillips

One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the great Mormon plan of salvation, a smiling exemplar of our sparkling difference. But instead I found myself a headstrong Mormon woman staking out her spiritual survival at a difficult point in Mormon history. — Joanna Brooks

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of fervent belief and ideology, this age or greed and screed. — Gregory Rabassa

The word is a flame burning in a dark glass. — Sheila Watson

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger