Edward Abbey Quotes

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

Edward Abbey

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• I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Together
  • Struggle
  • Feel

• Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Politics
  • Side
  • Lot

• Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • English
  • Difficult
  • Criticism

• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • School
  • Home
  • Remember

• When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Young

• We are what we believe we are.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Brainy

• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Family
  • Man

• I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Want
  • Smile

• Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Working

• My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Road

• Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • Girly
  • Styles

• A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poet
  • Own
  • Tradition

• Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Me
  • Day
  • New York

• I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Friend
  • United States

• Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Study
  • Try
  • Computers

• The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • Moral
  • Helping
  • Judgment

• I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Pretty

• I don't want to admit it, but I do enjoy the feedback from the audience. It's instant feedback. It's like, you could do a movie, shoot it for a year, wait six months, it comes out and you gotta do three weeks of marketing. Three weeks of that, and everyone goes, 'It sucks.'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Movie
  • Marketing

• I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can't let something go if I think it's wrong.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Alone

• Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

  

  Edward Abbey