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“I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.”

People Believe Shows Hands Able Law I Believe Ought Citizens Gun I Believe In Backgrounds Checks Abiding Law Abiding Citizen Background Checks

Author:George W. Bush

“These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely.”

People Thinking Needs Littles I Can Real Helping Care Speak Term Industry Argument Blind Motive Users Abiding Disabled Sympathetic Hemp Textiles Disingenuous

Author:Jamie Zawinski

“Coordinating our efforts and sharing information and expertise is a great way to step up our fight against violent criminals. We are determined to make Ontario communities safer for law abiding citizens.”

“The orgy of thieving in Iraq has more to do with the character of the people than the absence of restraining troops. And to think that good, decent, law-abiding young British and American men and women laid down their lives to liberate this thieving mob.”

People Thinking Men Character Law Young Men And Women Iraq British Absence Decent Troops Abiding Restraining

Author:Robert Kilroy-Silk

“We need to commit to serve the Lord and our communities with the same diligence and faith that the pioneers had. We must ever be on our guard that we do not become casual in keeping God's commandments, in abiding by His laws, and in being honest and trustworthy in all that we do.”

Needs Law Community Lord Honest Commit Being Honest Commandments Casual Abiding Diligence Pioneers Trustworthy Our Community

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status”

Persons Self Female Males Destroying Geek Abiding Obsessive

Book:Lucky Wander Boy

Source: Lucky Wander Boy

“My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That's still what drives me every single day.”

People Stills Abiding Abiding Faith

Author:Barack Obama

“At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.”

May Facts Known Sea Return Accounts Longing Contemplating Sail Restless Fascination Abiding

Author:J. D. McClatchy

“I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad. As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour. Germany does not want war of any kind. Germany wants real and abiding peace.”

World Want Needs Kind Doe Said Ideas War Real Government Lost Loss Military No Idea Germany Honour Realising Abiding Outside World Steering

Author:Rudolf Hess

“Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.”

States Calm Insight Abiding

Book:The Way of the Bodhisattva

Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva

“All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.”

May Grace Righteousness Abiding

Author:Martin Luther

“Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.”

Humor Light Objects Warm Sunshine Abiding

Book:Literature and life, lects

Source: Literature and life, lects

“Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.”

World Mind Body Jesus Names Heaven Christ Land This World Masters Kings Holy Calling Angel Blessed Saint All Time Native Heavenly Abiding Pilgrim Banishment

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.”

Moments Generations Influence Mankind Produce Institutions Conviction Enthusiasm Everlasting Abiding Eloquence Begets

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast of adversity.”

Source: The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author

“Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.”

People Men Has Beens Names Written Reader Sells Advertising Merit Goods Sincerity Abiding Advertisements Brass Cymbals

Author:Bruce Barton

“Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.”

Soul Pleasure Regard Medicine Fuel Abiding

Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.”

“Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!”

“The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.”

“The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.”

Ifs Way Real Leader Moral Watches Fashion Claims Mere Genuine Chains Titles Carrie Goods Assurance Abiding Supremacy Obtaining Pretence Precedence

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.”

Kind Sound Silence Movement Happenings Awakening Recognition Fleeting Abiding Spaciousness

Book:Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and Into the Moment

Source: Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and Into the Moment

“Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.”

People Two Ambition Hollywood Species Rewards Lust Crave Alliances Abiding Love And Friendship Endangered Species

Author:Lynda Obst

“Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory.”

May States Love Is And Love Affection Being In Love Abiding Transitory

Author:Jo Coudert

“This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message, and through obeying the Prophet, abiding by his orders, leaving what he prohibits and obeying all what Allah has revealed to him, because that is the vivid expression of the practical love that fills his whole entity.”

Should Believe Persons Whole Order Expression Messages Leaving Following Practicals Prophet Entity His Love Vivid Abiding Pious Obeying

Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.”

“I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!”

Law Broken Citizens Nervous Los Angeles Abiding Law Abiding Citizen

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.”

Littles Made Interest Effort Canada Surprising Neighbour Abiding Canada Day Canada Funny Happy Canada Day Canada Being Great

Author:Peter Jennings

“God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.”

Doe Moments Humor Life Is Religious Justice Sin Imagine Salvation Committed This Life Sinner Imagine That Abiding

Author:Martin Luther

“We know that when law-abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.”

Knows Persons Helping Law Know How Crime Citizens Abiding Firearms Law Abiding Citizen

Author:Paul Broun

“An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people like the Chekhov story The Lady With the Little Dog.”

People Littles Stories Our Lives Dog Invisible Abiding Preoccupation Chekhov

Author:Claire Messud

“If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.”

Ifs Way Law Rights Citizens Easier Protect Criminals Amendments Abiding Second Amendment Law Abiding Citizen

Author:John Dingell

“Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.”

“Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.”

Source: Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

“The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.”

Ends School Law Citizens Experiments Abiding Disarming Law Abiding Citizen

Author:Steve Stockman

“Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.”

Law Moral Path Ethics Right Thing Abiding Doing The Right Thing

Author:Kate Atkinson

“The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.”

Doe States Whole Interest Movement Stability Inherent Misogyny Abiding Polygamy

Author:Gene Robinson

“The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.”

Wells Children Individual Community Childhood Possibility Youth Activity Desert Better Life Here And There Abiding

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922

“It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.”

Sweet Flower Drawing Touching Honey Bees Abiding

Author:Joseph Hall

“In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.”

Two Law Nations Work Class Workers Nobility Employers Abiding

Author:Cullen Hightower

“I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.”

“...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.”

Life Humans Moving Spirit Human Life Reverence Abiding Militancy

Book:My Own Story: Top Biography

Source: My Own Story: Top Biography

“Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.”

People World Wells Whole Shows Together America Law Freedom Compassion Liberty Sacrifice Crime Example Elements Opposites Fundamentals Consistent Heritage Temper Restraint Abiding

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.”

Difficult Business Engaged Commerce Abiding

Author:Kenneth Clarke

“I'M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I'm a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a "threat" to those who don't know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt.”

Knows Mind Stills Law Doubt Citizens Benefits Racism Threat Miles Extras Fearful Know Me Abiding Of My Mind Extra Mile Benefit Of The Doubt Law Abiding Citizen

Book:Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

Source: Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

“My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a convict sit, With marline-spike untwisting it, Only to find its knottiness abiding; Since all the tools for its untying In four-dimensional space are lying, Wherein they fancy intersperses Long avenues of universes, While Klein and Clifford fill the void With one finite, unbounded homoloid, And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.”

Thinking Long Soul Lasts Lying Universe Space Four Tools Infinite Intellect Destroyed My Soul Fancy Void Unseen Finite Avenues Abiding Liquid Knots Convicts Vortex Fill The Void

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.”

Knows World Way Looks Mean Moving Pleasure Virtue Taste Pure Down And Filled Busy Sensuality Regions Abiding Gluttony

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.”

Knows Giving States Whole Facts Spiritual Universe Accepting Security Acceptance Flow Prepared Lasting Abiding Annihilation Giving In

Author:Marion Milner

“We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.”

Men War Law Young Strong Justice Honor Strive Fearless Young Man Decent Abiding

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“One legislator accused me of having a 19th century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an 18th century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law abiding citizens should be one of government's primary concerns.”