A problem shared is a problem halved, but as with so many problems affecting women – periods, menopause, post-natal depression – we often feel embarrassed, as if we’re moaning or just plain wrong to air them.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want – but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you’re just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you’re wrong.
I just like to have cereal in the morning, but it’ll be those cluster things – it’s a bit random – and through the day, I like just pasta, plain pasta with a bit of sauce on it, never too much in case I get a bad belly… and jelly just before I go on for a bit of energy!
Attacking another American’s qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.
Though I have seldom done anything to my own satisfaction, I am better satisfied with the translation of the New Testament than I ever expected to be. The language is, I believe, simple, plain, intelligible; and I have endeavored, I hope successfully, to make every sentence a faithful representation of the original.
These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.
Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother has to be plain. Mothers cannot be exciting. Mother should not be up on what’s going on; she shouldn’t know the jargon of the day. And I just find that so old-fashioned!
When it comes to politics today, the devils’ not in the details; the devil’s in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
Things that I had created or morphed into, I almost became. I felt like a broken man having to go back to plain old Matt Hardy in many ways.
You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we’re not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It’s plain and simple as that.
High School is like a spork: it’s a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it’s just plain useless.
Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they’re just plain emasculated.
Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I’ll stand up for free speech – even speech I don’t like.
God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.
When it comes to climate change and the environment, President Donald Trump is plain wrong.
I know how important it is to drink water, but plain H2O bores me to death, so I inevitably end up dehydrated.
Los Angeles is a weird mixture of every influence that Europe has dropped in its melting pot. It is hot, arid, picturesque, seething, banal, sometimes plain pleasant, and sometimes awesome.
Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts – plain and simple.
Take a microphone out of my hands, and I’m just plain folks.
I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don’t notice because you’re so interested in what’s happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.
In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.
I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
My diet is just the normal stuff that you know is healthy – nice, clean food – meats, vegetables, fresh juices. I don’t have too many sauces, I just like really plain chicken, broccoli: all clean stuff.
I don’t particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that’s cool, but I don’t do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
Boxing is not a bodybuilding sport, plain and simple. Your body isn’t going to win a fight.
When you’re as plain as I am, you’ve gotta have a gimmick.
It’s a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.
Like every aspect of cancer I’ve weathered thus far, today’s experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.
When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn’t be great. So I asked around, ‘What do you think of this?’ That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.
I believe I’m from somewhere else, and I was put on this plain for a purpose. I’ve met other star children, too. We’re like spirits who move from world to world.
At various times in my undercover career I had either a full beard, a short-cropped beard, Fu Manchu, a plain simple moustache or just a goatee. We did that – generally we would have a look that we would maintain for anywhere from 3 to 6 months.
I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don’t really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I’d much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food.
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
Stupidity really gets me going, when it’s just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.
Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.
You think once you’ve shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys’ roles and girls’ roles made me plain mad. It’s unjust.
There are some very plain, very simple offences in the Fraud Act 2006 that can be applied to price manipulation. For example, there’s fraud by false representation. This is aimed at people who say something misleading to line their pockets or cause financial harm to someone else.
Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance – so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.
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.
In plain Texas talk, it’s ‘do the right thing’
I’m a short, fairly plain person who’s bluffing his case and getting away with it.
The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.
I’m intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person’s life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled.
Any time I try to play anything that doesn’t come natural, I’m just plain bad.
We need to get everyone into the outdoors, young and old, to enjoy and experience the unmatched beauty of our state’s streams and lakes while participating in an activity, fishing, that’s just plain out fun.
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
Whether it’s repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common – they exist to keep women ‘in their place.’ To make sure that we’re acting ‘appropriately,’ whatever that means.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that – and who won’t leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn’t.
I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.
