#plain

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #concentration #countries #create #currently

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people? ↗

— John Clayton

#am #campus #college #death #every

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#armour #bit #bitter #change #clip

We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw. ↗

— Brian Clough

#complains #day #early #every #film

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#around #boring #complaining #done #else

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#else #explain #how #like #luck

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#anything #band #been #complain #everybody

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#imaginative #language #more #necessary #plain

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered. ↗

— Dan Flavin

#delivered #else #everything #it is what it is #nothin

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find. ↗

— Dan Flavin

#direct #ever #fact #find #i