#plain

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#alone #consciousness #day #delicious #entangled

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government. ↗

— Mark Sanford

#black #busy #felt #government #had

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#due #explain #here #mystery #once

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #humor #making-love #plainness #women

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose. ↗

— J.A. Konrath

#positive-attitude #attitude

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#intimacy-self-sacrifice #therapy #transparency #love

The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#patient #nature

Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#complaining #dejan-stojanovic #earth #literature #literature-quotes

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#balls #bowling #complaint #feel #gone

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#most #opportunity #otherwise #plain #scarcity