#plain

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ↗

— Jane Austen

#almost #beauty #been #cradle #delight

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#democratic #faith #his #idealist #leadership

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#like #plain #rich #set #stone

He who avoids complaint invites happiness. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#complaint #happiness #invites #who

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. ↗

— Edmond About

#contained #france #gone #him #i

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#explained #need #nor #photograph #true

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about. ↗

— Adele

#direct #explaining #i #i can #interviews

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance. ↗

— Kate Adie

#also #appearance #bbc #beirut #civil

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#couple #dog #explained #first #had

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#committed #completely #could #day #every