Eric Abetz Quotes

I don't believe that knifing and that sort of terminology is applicable to myself, but I try to the very best of my ability to be as honest as I can with my colleagues and with the electorate at large.

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• There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Live
  • Character
  • Blessings

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Travel

• I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Acting
  • Historian
  • Confusing

• Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religious
  • Violence
  • Religion

• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Up
  • Guy
  • New

• I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Food

• I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stop

• As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • America
  • Violence
  • Picture

• The Turks would do anything with a captured screaming infidel body - make it chew its own penis, thrust the testicles up the anus, saw the noseless earless head off with slow delicacy.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up

• I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Good
  • Suffering

• I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • People
  • Book
  • Shopping

• In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Respect
  • Attention

• Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word in edgewise for, like, an hour. But as a director, he is so completely open and just... present.

  

  Phil LaMarr
  • Party
  • Present

• Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Different

• I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

  

  Chris Isaak

• Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant.

  

  Jerry West
  • Great
  • Player

• The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hope
  • House
  • Wisdom

• Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Sacrifice
  • Mankind
  • Deserve

• I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Me
  • Drug
  • Dangerous

• I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Kind

• I don't believe that knifing and that sort of terminology is applicable to myself, but I try to the very best of my ability to be as honest as I can with my colleagues and with the electorate at large.

  

  Eric Abetz
  • Trying
  • Ability
  • Honest