Edwin A. Abbott Quotes

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

Edwin A. Abbott

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• I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Mistake
  • Big
  • Over

• I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Enjoy

• Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Smart

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Unexpected

• The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Want
  • Achieve
  • Nation

• People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Blessing

• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Women
  • Energy

• The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Man
  • Black
  • Theatre

• A beautiful 35-year old ain't as good-looking as an ugly 19-year old.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Gang

• I'm usually barefoot. That's how I'm most comfortable. I like my feet to be on the ground. I like to jump around, I like to fly across the stage.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Fly
  • Jump

• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Pretty

• The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Nature

• "What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web."

  

  E. B. White
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Nature

• How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • Society

• I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

  

  Edwin A. Abbott
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Readers