Plenty Quotes - Page 12

• When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

  Ovid

  Wine, Wings, Worry

  19 Copy quote

• If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.

  Jay Leno

  Life, Thinking, Pie

  7 Copy quote

• The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly available, nor for energy which exists in plenty in the sun and any hot body in the form of heat, but rather a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Struggle, Air, Water

  46 Copy quote

• And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

  Barack Obama

  Suffering, Borders, World

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Air, Years

  37 Copy quote

• Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the common man. It has raised the average standard of living to a height never dreamed of in earlier ages. It has made accessible to millions of people enjoyments which a few generations ago were only within the reach of a small élite.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Average, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Differences, Needs, World

  "Eat the Rich". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, www.sfgate.com. 1998.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Love, Sea, People

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Intelligent, Men, Ideas

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Peace, Perfect, Would Be

  7 Copy quote

• By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

  Jason Bateman

  Inspirational, Smart, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Music, Player, Style

  4 Copy quote

• If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line, a year, even five, those are the ones you put in your bag and you take to the studio. You come to realize, the ones that don't make it, they were only meant to live for that moment in your notebook or on the 4-track-and plenty of songs never get any farther than the 4-track.

  M. Ward

  Notebook, Song, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Father, Squirrels, Eagles

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Standing Out: Being Real in an Unreal World”, Multnomah

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.

  John Elder Robison

  People, Routine, World

  6 Copy quote

• It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe youtry to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as Gods will yourself!

  Thomas Merton

  War, Believe, Roof Over Your Head

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.179, New Directions Publishing

  96 Copy quote

  Show source

• Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

  Albert Einstein

  Germany, Want, Firsts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.163, Princeton University Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.

  Barbara Kruger

  Space, Slave, Enough

  4 Copy quote

• Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

  Michael Shannon

  Real, People, Emptiness

  8 Copy quote

• Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.

  Christina Milian

  Young, Hopes Up, Right Now

  52 Copy quote

• I think women are afraid to say that they don't want children because they're going to get shunned. But I think that's changing too now. I have more girlfriends who don't have kids than those that do. And honestly? We don't need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet.

  Cameron Diaz

  Girlfriend, Children, Kids

  "It takes guts to say: 'I don't want children" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2009.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes.

  Frank Sinatra

  Children, Dirty, Home

  18 Copy quote

• There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Gay, Hell

  17 Copy quote

• I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

  Craig Kilborn

  Retirement, Wine, Red

  12 Copy quote

• The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Interesting, Cheesy, Potatoes

  24 Copy quote