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  • Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

    Melanie Rawn (2005). “The Star Scroll”, p.315, Penguin
  • Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

    Music   Son   Men  
  • Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

    Autumn   Moon   Tunnels  
    Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XXV”
  • Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.

  • If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

    Men   Giving   Reason  
    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [267]
  • When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

  • This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

    Source: alicewalkersgarden.com
  • The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a job isn't looking just for a sexy job, they're looking for any job.

    Sexy   Jobs   Green  
    Source: aalbc.com
  • There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

    Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.3604, Delphi Classics
  • For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."

    Garden   Jam   Made  
  • Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

    Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
  • And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water. I am sure that some will say that a rapidly growing market for water is "good for the economy," and most of us are still affluent enough to pay the cost. Nevertheless, it is a considerable cost that we are now paying for drinkable water, which we once had in plentiful supply at little cost or none at all. And the increasing of the cost suggests that the time may come when the cost will be unaffordable.

    Drinking   Years   Rivers  
    Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney White (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.147, Counterpoint Press
  • Food insecurity and hunger are serious threats to children's health, growth, and development. The idea of not being able to put plentiful, nutritious food on the table for my girls is a horrifying thought.

    Girl   Children   Ideas  
  • Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.

    Three   Rats   Lawyer  
  • There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.

  • A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

    Marriage   Winning   Men  
    Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.149, University of Chicago Press
  • Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.

    Winter   Harvest   Snowy  
    Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.28
  • The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

    Country   Fate   Greed  
    Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press
  • Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

    Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.176
  • Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

    Coal   China   Wells  
  • We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

  • Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

    Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.28
  • You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

    People   Income   May  
    Louis Kronenberger, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1947). “The Portable Johnson & Boswell”, New York
  • To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.

    Book   Eye   Writing  
    "A man's reach: the philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank".
  • When I write, I love finding connections between ideas. When the connections are plentiful and strong, then I know it's a pretty good subject to write about.

    Strong   Writing   Ideas  
  • ... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

    Water   Acting   Genius  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

    War   Fire   Water  
    Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.98
  • It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.

    Adam Smith (1869). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2”, p.473
  • The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.

    Moving   Writing   Ideas  
    Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.167, Penguin
  • General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

    New York   Army   Islands  
    Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.316
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