Plentious Quotes & Sayings

Some people who visit my century home on the lake often comment on the billboards that obscure part of the view. I often tell them to look past the bad to see the good. Just like life. It's what we see and how we see it that matters. — Lynn Hones

I was relieved to see some color come back
to his face after he ate, though he still had dark circles under his eyes as if he hadn't slept for a week. I thought I had the monopoly on those. — Diana Rowland

Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won't be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know. — Annette Bridges

But suddenly, after all this time, I feel there is something to say, and if I don't
quickly write it down, my head will burst. It doesn't matter if you read it. It
doesn't even matter if I send it - assuming that could be done. Perhaps it comes
down to this. I am writing to you because you know nothing. Because you are far
away from me and know nothing. — Paul Auster

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect. — Marisha Pessl

I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned. — Julie Bowen

The CHP commissioner uttered those words before kicking off a five-hour meeting to talk about mental-health training for police. More then 100 experts and advocates, lawmakers and legislative staff, public health officials, family members and police officers from around the state gathered at the patrol's North Sacramento headquarters. — Anonymous

There is a lot of pain in being lonely, but a lot of beauty in being alone. — Steven Aitchison

Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned! — Israelmore Ayivor

The souls of people do not interest him, that is to say for him the reality of life is in the head, the face and the body and this is for him so important, so persistent, so complete that it is not at all necessary to think of any other thing and the soul is another thing. — Gertrude Stein

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well. — Lily Allen

I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything. — Katy Butler

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry. — J.A. Konrath

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. — Thomas Henry Huxley

The rain is plentious but, by God's decree,
Only a third is meant for you and me;
Two-thirds are taken by the growing things
Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings:
Nor does it mathematically fall
With social equity on one and all.
The population's habit is to grow
In every region where the water's low:
Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's,
And well-run rivers have to change their plans. — A.P. Herbert

There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could. — Jack Kirby