Plaintive Quotes: top 21 famous quotes about Plaintive

Plaintive Quotes & Sayings

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Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is. — Trent Reznor

Your life is your garden
and your thoughts are your seeds,
so if your life isn't awesome
you've been watering the weeds. — Terry Prince

Not a cute little whimper. Not a plaintive little wail. A full-throated, piercing "This Woman Has Kidnapped Me, Call the Cops" scream. — Sophie Kinsella

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb — Seneca The Younger

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. — Ray Bradbury

Always-
the sharp,
plaintive edge
on the rim
of the spoon
of my giving.
(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions') — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun. — Lorrie Moore

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer. — Edith Wharton

The power to change is in my hands. — Helen M. Ryan

I'm a big fan of comedy music. — Ray Stevens

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies. — Paul Keating

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field. — Boris Pasternak

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance. — Nicholas Murray Butler

The weary August days are long;
The locusts sing a plaintive song,
The cattle miss their master's call
When they see the sunset shadows fall. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things
And battles long ago. — William Wordsworth

All things die not: while the soul lives, love lives: the song may be now gay, now plaintive, but it is deathless. — Mary Johnston

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. — Kareena Kapoor Khan

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat. — Benjamin Franklin

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. — Lydia M. Child

Sleep, elusive as a ghost, plaintive as a widow, and as easy to hold as the wind. — Jeff Salyards