Plenty Quotes - Page 37

• He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Errors, Made

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.111, Random House

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• ... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

  Amelia Barr

  Kind, Trouble, Written

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.216, Litres

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• With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Friendship, Sky, Sun

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• When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Play, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.

  Steve Goodier

  Mistake, Passion, Heart

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• I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Mother, Writing

  Tess Gallagher (1992). “Moon crossing bridge: poetry”, Graywolf Pr

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• I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

  Christine McVie

  Successful, Thinking, Albums

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• There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.

  Alan Alda

  Soul, Your Soul, Loses

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• Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sorry, Mistake, Way

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• You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Rooms, Telling The Truth

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.459, Northwestern University Press

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• Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.215, Library of America

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• Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?

  Pope Francis

  Love, Happiness, Lonely

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• We have plenty of room for people...in our lives, I mean. Especially the ones who make us be the people we want to be.

  Suzanne LaFleur

  Mean, People, Want

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• I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

  Nicholas Jarecki

  Scripts, Written

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors. You know, you interview plenty of actors and you know they come at it from a different direction and acting means different things to a lot of people.

  John Lithgow

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing, I have a fair idea of where the story will begin, the main conflicts, and the basic ending point. But that still leaves plenty of room for changes and discovery along the way.

  Julie Klassen

  Writing, Discovery, Ideas

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• Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks.

  Gerard Butler

  Names, Scotland, Village

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• I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.

  Tony Abbott

  Character, Opportunity, Presence Of Mind

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.

  Laurie Anderson

  Fighting, Games, Play

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January 2012.

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• Any comic can get on the radio show and be funny. You can get that on any morning radio show or afternoon radio show. There are plenty of people who do that. It's not a difficult format, to sit around with two or three comics and be funny.

  Marc Maron

  Morning, Two, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I am the president of the sorority and I'm sure there are plenty of people I've pissed off enough to go on a killing spree.

  Emma Roberts

  People, President, Pissed Off

  Source: guff.com

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• I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Heart, Giving

  "Author interview: Barbara Kingsolver". www.librarything.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Beauty is everywhere and it comes in all different forms. Many times I don't find a size zero girl amazing, I find her really shockingly thin or small, and I think that beauty comes in all different forms. Beauty is about how you feel. There are plenty of people who are amazing to look at who are super beautiful, and then there are plenty of people who are easy to look at who are not beautiful at all, they open their mouth or they have an attitude or they are cruel, and they look hideous suddenly.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Beautiful, Girl, Zero

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• Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.

  Jason Mraz

  Stress, Heart, Long

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• I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Grandmother, Comfort

  Source: www.avclub.com

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