#plain

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain. ↗

— George Saunders

#explain #moments #sum #sum total #total

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#better #despite #else #explain #flaws

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#am #care #comparatively #i #i am

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement. ↗

— Ben Stein

#alert #am #around #calmer #concentrate

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#altered #answer #benefits #both #century

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#countless #countless millions #dawn #died #down

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#complaints #end #i #listen #tomorrow

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#change #complain #does #habits #man

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#book #certainly #could #enriched #explain

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,. ↗

— Joshua Sylvester

#base #heaven #high #humble #i