I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.
Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
There’s a human out there who is killing off Dark-Hunters, and someone needs to stop them. ” – Andy “Well, that’s just plain rude. ” – Sundown
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.
In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.
There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics. ' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.
The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.
Putting us in risk is just plain stupid.