
“There are plenty of people more «difficult» than me. ”
A collection of quotes on the topic of plenty, people, time, timing.
“There are plenty of people more «difficult» than me. ”
Source: The Songlines
“There will be a "Oops 100." They'll be plenty more oopses. I'm not perfect. I'm human.”
Matt Lauer interview http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13347509/page/4/, MSNBC (14 June 2006)
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
Source: Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 460.
Source: Computing machinery and intelligence
Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation of a Day of Fasting (12 August 1861) http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/proc-3.htm
1860s
"Parks Recalls Bus Boycott, Excerpts from an interview with Lynn Neary", National Public Radio (1992), linked at "Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4973548, NPR, October 25, 2005.
A desert blessing, an ocean curse. What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
Augustus "Gus" Waters, p. 310-313
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
“There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too.”
Reputedly while playing Bowls at Plymouth Hoe, upon being informed that the Spanish Armada had been sighted approaching England. ([29 July, 1588, 19 July]); This attribution is not known to have appeared in writing until 1736, so its authenticity remains uncertain.
Disputed
Variant: There's time to finish the game and beat the Spaniards too.
sic
Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers, p. 174, (1997), Brian King, ed. ISBN 096503240X
Source: “Bookshop Memories” in Fortnightly (November 1936)
“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
Source: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 239; this may be derived from a similar observation by Harlan Ellison which is sometimes misattributed to Zappa: "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
“There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge.)”
1991-08-27 at Bremen, Germany
Stage banter
“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
Source: Letter to Lady Chesterfield (19 July 1880), quoted in the Marquis of Zetland (ed.), The Letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield. Vol. II, 1876 to 1881 (London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929), p. 282.
Pg 9
The Way of Men (2012)
in Denis Rouart (1972) Claude Monet, p. 21 : About his youth
after Monet's death
“Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.”
Motto
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Sir Paul McCartney and PETA VP Dan Mathews Reflect on Two Decades of Activism http://www.peta.org/features/paul-mccartney-interview/ (April 2005)
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
Source: Jailbird (1979), p. 14
1860s, Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 84
Religious Wisdom
“The wretched and the miserable would rise to plenty of joy and happiness.”
Eleven important sayings
Source: The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002), p. 158.
To Leon Goldensohn, March 13, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
2014, Sixth State of the Union Address (January 2014)
“It’s certain that fine women eat
A crazy salad with their meat
Whereby the Horn of plenty is undone.”
St. 4
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/
Three Years in a Curatorship, By One Whom It Has Tried, 1886
“A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.”
Roughing It (published 1872)
Roughing It (1872)
Ben Horowitz, " The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage http://www.bhorowitz.com/the_fine_line_between_fear_and_courage," at bhorowitz.com, August 07, 2011.
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
“Plenty has made me poor.”
Inopem me copia fecit.
Book III, 466
Variant translation: Abundance makes me poor.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)
Context: To dismiss the magnitude of this progress -- to suggest, as some sometimes do, that little has changed -- that dishonors the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years. Medgar Evers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Martin Luther King Jr. -- they did not die in vain. Their victory was great. But we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete. The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own. To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency. Whether by challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote, or ensuring that the scales of justice work equally for all, and the criminal justice system is not simply a pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails, it requires vigilance. And we'll suffer the occasional setback. But we will win these fights. This country has changed too much. People of goodwill, regardless of party, are too plentiful for those with ill will to change history’s currents.
Letter to Lambertus Grunnius (August 1516), publised in Life and Letters of Erasmus : Lectures delivered at Oxford 1893-4 (1894) http://books.google.com/books?id=ussXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=%22is+no+discipline+and+which+are+worse+than+brothels%22&source=bl&ots=PnJjrkSLNB&sig=JPY0PhTf2YgYwJlf3uH2eTvCJeA&hl=en&ei=BGwXTNqTA5XANu6_pJ8L&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22is%20no%20discipline%20and%20which%20are%20worse%20than%20brothels%22&f=false edited by James Anthony Froude, p. 180
Context: There are monasteries where there is no discipline, and which are worse than brothels — ut prae his lupanaria sint et magis sobria et magis pudica. There are others where religion is nothing but ritual; and these are worse than the first, for the Spirit of God is not in them, and they are inflated with self-righteousness. There are those, again, where the brethren are so sick of the imposture that they keep it up only to deceive the vulgar. The houses are rare indeed where the rule is seriously observed, and even in these few, if you look to the bottom, you will find small sincerity. But there is craft, and plenty of it — craft enough to impose on mature men, not to say innocent boys; and this is called profession. Suppose a house where all is as it ought to be, you have no security that it will continue so. A good superior may be followed by a fool or a tyrant, or an infected brother may introduce a moral plague. True, in extreme cases a monk may change his house, or even may change his order, but leave is rarely given. There is always a suspicion of something wrong, and on the least complaint such a person is sent back.
"Practical Politics" in The Outlook (26 April 1913) http://books.google.com/books?id=ZD5YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA936
1910s
Context: There are plenty of decent legislators, and plenty of able legislators; but the blamelessness and the fighting edge are not always combined. Both qualities are necessary for the man who is to wage active battle against the powers that prey. He must be clean of life, so that he can laugh when his public or his private record is searched; and yet being clean of life will not avail him if he is either foolish or timid. He must walk warily and fearlessly, and while he should never brawl if he can avoid it, he must be ready to hit hard if the need arises. Let him remember, by the way, that the unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
2018, Speech at the University of Illinoise Speech (2018)
Letter to Lambertus Grunnius (August 1516), published in Life and Letters of Erasmus : Lectures delivered at Oxford 1893-4 (1894) http://books.google.com/books?id=ussXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=%22is+no+discipline+and+which+are+worse+than+brothels%22&source=bl&ots=PnJjrkSLNB&sig=JPY0PhTf2YgYwJlf3uH2eTvCJeA&hl=en&ei=BGwXTNqTA5XANu6_pJ8L&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22is%20no%20discipline%20and%20which%20are%20worse%20than%20brothels%22&f=false edited by James Anthony Froude, p. 180
“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics”
it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.
Three Years in a Curatorship, By One Whom It Has Tried, 1886
“The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.”
Source: The Lazarus Project
“I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.”
Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1
“There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”
“Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Variant: when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
Source: House Rules
Source: Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
Variant: Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.”
“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”
“Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
Source: 2000s, 2001, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
Context: Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.