A Quotes
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“Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice in our midst, but I think that the vast majority of Americans are willing, are willing to judge people on the basis of their ideas and their character. And in the case of the presidency, I think what's most important is whether the American people think that you understand their hopes and dreams and struggles and whether they think you can actually help them achieve those hopes and dreams.”
“Absolutely. I would never have tripped. I'm far too graceful”
Source: Playing With Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 2)
“Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah, who abides by Islam, who goes to mosque and prays every Friday, who prays five times a day-this practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Koran, cannot be a loyal citizen to the United States of America.”
“Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.”
Source: Slammed
“Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.”
“Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.”
“Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.”
“Absolutes are never to be trusted.”
Source: The Wisdom of Crowds
“Absolution exists, call it Christian or whatever. It’s far older than any creed, and one of our blessings.”
Source: The Broken Coast
“Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It's the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the people who killed him will never know.”
“Absolution is the washing away of sin. The promise of rebirth. And the chance to escape the transgressions of those who came before us. The best among us will learn from the mistakes of the past, while the rest seem doomed to repeat them. And then there are those who operate on the fringes of society, unburdened by the confines of morality and conscience. A ruthless breed of monsters whose deadliest weapon is their ability to hide in plain sight. If the people I've come to bring justice to cannot be bound by the quest for absolution, then neither will I.”
“Absolution – yes, I grasp the notion, but absolution is not the same as redemption, is it? The former is passive. The latter demands an effort, one with implicit sacrifice and hardship, one demanding all the higher qualities of what we call virtues.”
Source: Toll the Hounds
“Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.”
“Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.”
“Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs, although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist, and agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist - which I am.”
“Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.”
Source: Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy
“Absorb ideas from every source.”
“Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.”
“Absorb the pain instead of letting it consume you.”
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”
“Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.”
Source: Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir
“Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.”
“Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.”
“Absorbing foreign capital and technology and even allowing foreigners to construct plants in China can only play a complementary role to our effort to develop the productive forces in a socialist society. Of course, this will bring some decadent capitalist influences into China. We are aware of this possibility; it's nothing to be afraid of.”
“Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious”
Source: Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys
“Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the father of the Eisenhower Doctrine that still defines US policy in the Middle East . . . in 1956 battled demons in bodies personal and politic and in the desert – and prevailed. Nichols’ book, written lean enough to allow the facts to speak for themselves, makes for exciting history.”
“Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
“Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.”
“Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.”
Source: Cagney by Cagney
“Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart”
“Absorption of a lance dripping in unrelenting pain is the exacting threshold demanded to calibrate and measure the ultimate depth, carrying capacity, and resiliency of a soul.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones”
“Abstain from animals.”
“Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.”
“Abstain from butt wiping, it works for cats and dogs!”
“Abstain from every form of evil”
“Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”
“Abstaining from butt wiping is the solution to the COVID-19 toilet paper crisis!”
“Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom is it that these (two) things are owing? To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such (spasmodic) actings last long, how much less can a man!”
“Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.”
“Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.”
“Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities under the control of the higher powers, and to discern between right and wrong, the sacred and the common.”
“Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.”
Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism
“Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.”
“Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with.”
“Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.”
Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.”
“Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.”
“Abstinence is approved of God.”
“Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”