Quotes About Plenty

It is but one of the many follies of luxury which lead men to believe that plenty now is abundance always and fortune is everlasting. Pure folly.

come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine. … It shall be very grievous. … The thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 41.28-32

The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers.

If you're going to start a fire, why cook just one chicken?

Not really hungry." "She'll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation." "I eat plenty." "The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however." "I'll have a sandwich," I told Nick. "No meat.

I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.

Bird life aplenty is found in the sunny air, not all of it significant.

Bayard again eyed him speculatively, perhaps thinking that there was a new creature to snare, to use. Bayard always need plenty of creatures to deal with the intrigues at court.

Well, that's certainly... adequate, I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word. Adequate? He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. This is adequate? Maybe I should have said it's a gracious plenty? A gracious plenty. I like that, he said.

Too many was too many, but way too many was just right.

Do you know Eastern proverbs? "Unskilled guns, but... The more guns, the likely they will hit..." I've got plenty of Akuma to go around.

As for time, all men have it in abundance.

I've also been responsible for investigating plenty of strange stories. I intend to approach yours the same way I approached those — with an assumption that it represents reality until proven otherwise

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

More than enough is too much.

It's not that the universe wants you to be abundant; it is offering you the opportunity to take part in its abundance.

We have plenty of money to do everything we want to do, if we do it smart.

The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back.

But since abundance would bring the opposite effect

But our tendency to give scarcity more attention than abundance has caused us to ignore the many examples of abundance that have arisen in our own lifetime, like corn, for starters. The problem is that once something becomes abundant, we tend to ignore it

10. Manage for abundance, not scarcity.

Plenty in a world of excess and attending greed, which tilts resources to the rich and forces others to envy, is an almost obscene feature of a contemporary paradise. In this world of outrageous, shameless wealth squatting, hulking, preening before the dispossessed, the very idea of "plenty" as Utopian ought to make us tremble. Plenty should not be understood as a paradise-only state, but as normal, everyday, humane life.

Plenty should not be regulated to a paradisiacal state, but to normal, everyday, humane life.