There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.
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GROVER WHALEN The interesting question is not just Hillary Clinton's history at Wal-Mart, but why it's delicate fo... CHARLES FISHMAN What Cobain and Nirvana did is extremely rare. There are plenty of great bands, but not all of them ... JOE LEVY You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There ... L. FRANK BAUM The session isn't over. There are plenty of things in the pipeline. BARRETT MARSON There are plenty of Muslims who live faithfully in the United States. MONICA CROWLEY Beliefs – these are plenty. Life, there is only one! MARIANA FULGER There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children. BERNADINE DOHRN There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well. LAUREN HUTTON There are plenty of questions for us to answer in the zoning case, DAVID BARNETT Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. OTTO RANK There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down. SOURCE UNKNOWN After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology. JAMES DYSON He is disappointed, but there will be plenty of opportunities over the course of the season. GRANT MAYER But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart. EOIN COLFER The bottom line is there is still plenty of aviation activity over Bosnia. LEIGHTON SMITH There are plenty of dangerous things people do without getting behind the wheel of a car. CAROLYN BECK It must have taken some work as there are plenty of posters in shot, IAN MURRAY There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS We are encouraged because there is plenty of case law that shows that a large urban city can't make ... JEFF TURNER There is plenty for everyone, including me. LOUISE L. HAY There was plenty of opportunity, and the kids shot a lot of shells. BILL COOK Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good ... STEVEN MILLHAUSER There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery. CHARLES DICKENS There is plenty of water on the planet, but every year its per capita availability diminishes. LOIC FAUCHON There are plenty of opportunities for minorities on campus, you've just got to take them. DAVID HILLERY Don’t sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free. JENNY LAWSON It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do. JEROME K. JEROME Yes, there are plenty of politicians who are liars, there is no doubt about this! But some of them a... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too. FRANCIS DRAKE There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imm... SARAH JOSEPHA HALE There was $8 billion in new capital expenditures in 2004, so there is still plenty of capacity. BILL CARTEAUX There is going to be spring corn. There was a lot lost, but there will be corn in the spring and ple... PAUL ALLEN There is plenty of money out there looking for deals. There's not a problem in people wanting to mak... DON CARSON When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER We know there is plenty of virus there, but it's just not affecting humans, or even horses, very muc... CRAIG LEVY If this is true -- and there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that it is -- this is a scan... SAM BROWNBACK There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going. STEVE FORBES There's plenty of land there to build a very nice facility. GERRY ACUNA There's plenty of capacity there. We're asking for only 13,500 gallons where there is over 55,000 ga... ED TUCCIO Plenty of them are putting their stuff out there in the hopes of being found by the existing system. LAURA BEHRENS There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem whic... JOHN FOSTER DULLES There are plenty of fish coming in, but we went from gin-clear low water to dirty high water. BOB GOODING There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, b... ERNEST THOMPSON SETON Plenty of errors lead to plenty of failures. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger lef... INGMAR BERGMAN That's my investment in my kids. There are plenty of agencies out there that will tell you that I'm ... DAVID CANTER My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER In delay there lies no plenty. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's OK, there are plenty of other countries, like China, that will be willing to help us. EVO MORALES There are plenty of people out there that are willing to prey on young people. It hasn't been that h... LT. TOD DAHLE There is plenty of good in there. But it's been quite watered down, and many things have been left t... NADIM SHEHADI There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them... RALPH MARSTON There will be plenty of opportunities for Man Financial... Refco is one of Man Financial's largest c... GEOFF MILLER In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this... VICTORIA MORAN If you did not want much, there was plenty. HARPER LEE Sentiment has not weakened significantly, and there's plenty of demand out there for stocks like Tei... HIDENORI KARAKI It's not really a dark piece. There are plenty of laughs. I would call it a show with a lot of emoti... MARSHALL BRICKMAN In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leaders... HERBERT HOOVER In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leaders... HERBERT CLARK HOOVER Where there hate a flower will die, but where's love plenty of flowers will grow. MIKE GRIST A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the wo... CHINESE PROVERB A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the wo... CHINESE PROVERBS Another aspect of this is there are plenty of films and commercials that production companies are fi... ROB VARLEY There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it NAPOLEON HILL There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them. CASEY STENGEL There will be plenty of exposure and publicity, so it's up to him now. GLEN ELLA Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also import... ERIC MASKIN Right now the economy, especially on the lake, is very good. And there's plenty of work out there. JASON TURNER The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room th... LEIGH HUNT I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' ... ALEXI ZENTNER We are still in the early innings of a turnaround or transition at Sears. Now there is a little bit ... SCOTT ROTHBORT In Massachusetts and Vermont, there had been plenty of mosquitoes, but in New Hampshire, they had re... 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MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur... J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no... J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays. J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. TOLKIEN 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t... J. R. R. TOLKIEN His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j... J. R. R. TOLKIEN One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a dangerous business going out your front door. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel... J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more p... J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Little by little, one travels far. J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wa... J. R. R. TOLKIEN The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy t... J. R. R. TOLKIEN There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. J. R. R. TOLKIEN