#plain

Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe. ↗

— Frank Miller

#bush #call #common #communal #effort

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. ↗

— John Milton

#bound #civil #civil liberty #complaints #considered

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#clarity #complaining #contribute #could #emotional

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film? ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doing #earth #explain #film #get

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#even #i #much #myself #ordinary

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand. ↗

— John Moody

#both #completely #dealing #did #evils

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#boards #companies #constituents #data #defend

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#children #fun #just #plain #work

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cannot #explain #sea #wave #whole

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training. ↗

— Bebe Neuwirth

#i #i am #jew #just #mean