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Quotes About Plenty

Industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Pride breakfasted with Plenty Dined with poverty Supped with Infamy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.
~ Christopher Buckley
When you grow tomatoes, you're going to get a lot of tomatoes. So you want to learn how to preserve.
~ Marc Gasol
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
~ James Howell
Time no longer mattered. He knew he would have plenty of it at his disposal. The sight of the star filled him with indescribable longing.
~ J. Valor, Salome
Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
~ Matt Ridley
the universe was not created for or about human beings, that we are not special, and there was no Golden Age of tranquillity and plenty in the distant past, but only a primitive battle for survival.
~ Matt Ridley
Indeed, want and hunger were not the only reasons for fighting. Plenty and scarcity are relative not only to the number of mouths to be fed but also to the potentially ever-expanding and insatiable range of humans needs and desires. It is as if, paradoxically, human competition increases with abundance, as well as with deficiency, taking more complex forms and expressions, widening social gaps and enhancing stratification.
~ Azar Gat
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...
~ Barack Obama
Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.
~ Joseph Mitchell
That's okay," Twigpaw mewed brightly. "There's plenty to do in camp. I think I saw a fish in the stream yesterday. It was just a small one, but it would be fun to catch." Leafpool wrinkled her nose. "You sound like a RiverClan cat." "We're not going to eat it," Twigpaw purred. "We'll throw it back," Finpaw agreed. Leafpool shook her head. "You'll have to catch it first.
~ Erin Hunter
When you stay aligned with your Energy Stream, you always win, and somebody else does not have to lose for you to win. There is always enough.
~ Esther Hicks
The family was still hard-pressed for money, and dreamed of savory treats to eat, but they had the warmth of one another, and enough on which to live, and in most parts of the world that is called plenty.
~ Gregory Maguire
To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered is to be renewed. To be in want is to possess. To have plenty is to be confused," Lao Tzu wrote.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential.
~ Joel Parkinson
Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.
~ Ernest Holmes
Rich with the spoils of Nature.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
God dispenses his goodness not with an eyedropper but a fire hydrant. Your heart is a Dixie cup, and his grace is the Mediterranean Sea. You simply can't contain it all. So let it bubble over. Spill out. Pour forth. And enjoy the flood.
~ Max Lucado
Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything? Plenty of time, he said softly. Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic? Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.
~ Maya Banks
Valuing ourselves rightly means we understand love to be the only foundation of being that will sustain us in both times of lack and times of plenty
~ bell hooks
There's plenty of food here," Erik said dismissively. "We have fish traps and eel traps, we net wildfowl and eat well. And the prospect of silver and gold buys a lot of wheat, barley, oats, meat, fish, and ale.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Why are people so obsessed with Pets.com? We shut it down and returned money to shareholders. Besides, there were plenty of other dot-com failures around then.
~ Julie Wainwright
Man is here to prove God and "to bear witness to the truth," and he can only prove God by bringing plenty out of lack, and justice out of injustice.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn