Edward Abbey Quotes

With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.

Edward Abbey

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• A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Smile
  • Warm

• What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Interesting

• You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • High
  • Want
  • You

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Think
  • Imagination
  • Paint

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Equal
  • Close

• As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dumb

• As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Long
  • Think
  • Feet

• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

  

  Yael Stone
  • World
  • American
  • Culture

• I'm a writer who just happens to draw.

  

  Matt Groening

• Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Life
  • Pretty

• People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'

  

  Lea Michele
  • Life
  • Believe

• The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.

  

  Charles Macomb Flandrau
  • Life
  • Past
  • Pain

• With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life