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Quotes About Plenty

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.
~ Condoleezza Rice
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.
~ Murray Gell-Mann
Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
~ Anais Nin
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
~ Arthur Henderson
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes.
~ Thomas Gray
The world has plenty of noise, Julian, but not many voices. And because there are so few, each one matters. . . That's my argument. The simple fact that we need people who remind us of the darkness.
~ Thomas H. Cook
Enough is the same as a feast.
~ Thomas Malory
A good thing is good, but more than enough of a good thing is too much.
~ Thornton W. Burgess
When you recognize the many types of abundance in your life, more abundance will flow to you through all levels of your life and amongst all of the people in your life.
~ Cheryl Hamada
Quantity had a quality of its own.
~ Harry Turtledove
I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.
~ Lee Child
There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.
~ Lemony Snicket
Neither was this the ordinary world of supply and demand; it was a world of abundance.
~ Len Deighton
This was invitation enough.
~ Jane Austen
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.
~ William Blake
there was always a considerable stock
~ William Boyd
Broadly, the Long Tail is about abundance. Abundant shelf space, abundant distribution, abundant choice.
~ Chris Anderson
Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, na?ve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.
~ Henry Miller
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
~ John Desmond Bernal
witches in there to scrutinize, there's plenty of ruins to keep
~ Tony Hillerman
The table quite literally groaned under its weight of roasted game
~ David Eddings
As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Fill till the wine o'erswell the cup
~ William Shakespeare