Plenty Quotes

“We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fucking lactose intolerance?!”
― Chris Rock

“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.

Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.

The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.

Dare to breach the surface and sink.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!”
― Major Thomas

“We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Arther, what is first on the agenda?"
...
"The same as ever, Highness. Elections, land, and entitlements." Arther had learned to mask much of his distaste at that last word, but his lips still puckered as if it soured his tongue.
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Entitlements. Leesha hated the word, too, but not for the same reason as Arther. It was a cold word, used by those with full bellies to bemoan feeding those without.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Skull Throne

“Historians have pointed out that it is in times of plenty that people feel like going to war. In times of famine they're simply trying to find enough to eat. When they've just enough to go round they tend to be polite. But when a banquet is spread before them, it's time to argue over the place settings.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Plenty sits still. Hunger is a wanderer.”
― Zulu

“Let your words be petty and actions plenty!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“I want to live somewhere where it rains a lot and things grow furiously. I want to see the fruits of the earth multiply and all that sort of thing. I want to make provision for the future. I want to lay up riches on earth since I don’t believe in heaven. Not material riches— I want green fields and fat cows and oak trees.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“The Empire knew a time of peace, a time of glory, a time of plenty: it was the finest age the world had ever known. Justice and love ruled the Empire. The people glorified Zadig, and Zadig glorified heaven.”
― Voltaire

“Bit by bit, whatever you see to be petty becomes plenty.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Who the hell ever said that plenty was supposed to abolish unhappiness? But what it will do is free our hands to concentrate on unhappiness.”
― Francis Spufford, Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream

“I have plenty of time... if I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble.”
― Deyth Banger

“When you have plenty of knowledge that's the moment when you get vulgar, irnoc and hypocritical.”
― Deyth Banger

“Plenty sit still. Hunger is a wanderer.”
― Zulu Proverb

“Where there is faith, breakthroughs are plenty.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“Plenty is the peace of the poet.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When I was saying "Yes",
There were plenty "Jack Horner's",
The minute I started saying "No"
I was alone in a corner”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Then I imagined a whole world of people toiling in the shadow of approaching ruin, exhausting their strength and grace, while above them a whole other world of people puttered around, enjoying the good things of life, staying at the Burj just because they could.

And I left my ATM woes out of it and just wrote: Paucity = Rage.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“We have SUVs and PlayStations and plenty to eat, we roam the earth expecting respect and receiving it, for we are the American Middle Class, and we shall live out the full measure of our days amidst happiness and plenty.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“Too much of a good thing—is not a good thing.”
― Black Mike

“In a world long before this one, there was enough for everyone,
Until somebody got out of line.”
― Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

“Don't focus on the number of fish with you now, let your eyes be on the One who can multiply them”
― Gabriel Ladokun

“Abundance wears many faces. The got of plenty is also the god of decay. There can be no life without death, no feast without famine.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses