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If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God ...
— H.L. Mencken
You are plainly awash with debauchery.I'm merely an innocent casualty of your depravity.
— Kendra Leigh
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
— Antonio Machado
We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.
— Reginald Heber
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
— Henri Bergson
The end is so immense, it is its own poetry. It requires little rhetoric. Just state it plainly.
— Philip Roth
I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.
— Christa Wolf
Faith of that sort - the sort that can stand up at least for a while in a confrontation with reason - is now plainly impossible.
— Christopher Hitchens
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.
— Michael Gove
There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.
— Spencer W. Kimball
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.
— Ravi Zacharias
I am learning there is much more to the world than can be plainly seen.
— Kristen Britain
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
— Gore Vidal
Statements are made so plainly and positively that men have hardly the moral courage to pause upon them and find that they are without support.
— G.K. Chesterton
I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.
— Alice Walker
The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished.
— Stephen V Monsma
You might not see one in a hundred withgentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightley. — Jane Austen
To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.
— Diane Setterfield
It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.
— Jane Austen
If you do not love Christ, let me plainly tell you what is the reason: You have no sense of debt to Him.
— J.C. Ryle
Especially when he is plainly unable to move,and is saying, gently, 'Clark. Please. Just come
over here. Please, — Jojo Moyes
Visits. Your parents plainly think you're a loser. You don't have the guts to walk out of even the
— Jojo Moyes
Plainly put, a relationship with jesus requires total, superior, and exclusive devotion.
— David Platt
Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
And he who pursues pleasure will not abstain from injustice, and this is plainly impiety.
— Marcus Aurelius
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
— John Locke
You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.
— Loren Eiseley
Be brave. Write plainly.
— Patricia O'Connor
CHRIST'S LIFE ILLUSTRATES PLAINLY THAT THE CROWN OF VICTORY IS FORGED FROM THE GOLD OF OBEDIENCE.
— Calvin Miller
Shall I tell you plainly one thing, sir? I dread almost as much to receive any tidings of my vessel as to remain in doubt. Uncertainty is still hope.
— Alexandre Dumas
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.
— William S. Burroughs
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
— William Shakespeare
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
But now she couldn't deny what was staring her plainly in the face: dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea.
— Barbara Demick
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
— Walter Savage Landor
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
— Sargent Shriver
We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.
— Anne Bradstreet
See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?
— Richard Hooker
I envy no man's nightingale or spring;Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King. — George Herbert
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
— Arnold Bennett
Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.
— Michael Flynn
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.
— Nikolai Gogol
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.
— Alice Hoffman
Is it as plainly in our living shown,By which way the wind hath blown? — Adelaide Crapsey
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
— Lionel Shriver
A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.
— Martin Luther
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
— John Ridley
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
— Abraham Lincoln
I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.
— Billy Sunday
The ending is immense. Tell it plainly".
— Philip Roth
How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.
— Abraham Lincoln
I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.
— Stephenie Meyer
This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'
— John Calvin
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One
— Bertrand Russell
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Witches see the truth plainly - even if their husbands are full of nonsense.
— Deborah Harkness
He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself [ ... ].
— Kate Chopin
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
— Gore Vidal
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else ... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
— Dan Flavin
In the land of wisdom, there is no fog in the air, no haze, no blur, no mirage, no smoke; all is seen plainly; the vision is very clean!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Avoid you. I want to avoid you. He stared at her, plainly confused.
— Nicholas Sparks
To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
— Salman Rushdie
The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.
— Kendare Blake
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
— Maria Montessori
What is time then? If nobody asks me, I know; but if I were desirous to explain it to one that should ask me, plainly I do not know.
— Augustine Of Hippo
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.
— Brother Lawrence
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.
— Albert J. Nock
Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do.I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see. — Dr. Seuss
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
— John Ruskin
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
— Marlon James
Children," I say plainly, "watch out for the baobabs!
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.
— Daniel Keys Moran
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
— J.D. Salinger
To consider mankind other than brethren ... plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.
— John Woolman
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
— Abraham Lincoln
Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. - Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus
— Peter Godfrey-Smith
The coyotes sounded like hurt dogs. They agitated plainly for Christ's return. May they not be heard.
— Denis Johnson
