Dan Abnett Quotes

I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

Dan Abnett

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• It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Words

• One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Important
  • Modern

• I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Time
  • Job
  • Remember

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Up
  • Time
  • Never

• I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Day

• We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Thought
  • Racial
  • Ethnic

• The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Time
  • Marriage
  • Period

• Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• I'll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I'll be with friends of mine who have kids, that want to watch 'Finding Nemo,' and I'm like, 'Yeah, okay, let's watch 'Nemo' again, for the seven billionth time!,' because they're amazing movies.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Think

• We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • May
  • Words
  • Challenge

• It took me a long time to adjust and narrow down my life. I made my shift to the mind-set … there's time for my daughter outside work and that's all. This is my new life. This is not drudgery. This is fun.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Strong

• My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

  

  Alan King
  • Mother
  • Car
  • Sister

• I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Rest

• When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • Red

• The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • History

• I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

  

  Dan Abnett
  • Time
  • Words
  • Thought