Edward Abbey Quotes

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

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• I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Strong
  • Living

• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

  

  Barry White
  • Looking
  • Babies
  • Trip

• We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Food
  • Body
  • Eating

• No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Great
  • Long
  • Live

• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Business
  • Driving
  • Horizon

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  

  Kal Penn
  • World
  • Space
  • Like

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Need
  • I Can

• The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Night
  • Road
  • Anger

• It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Great
  • Age
  • Doing

• Ché perder tempo a chi più sa più spiace.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Fly
  • Sing
  • Flowers

• Remember that, brethren. You cannot destroy the appointments of the prophets of God. The Lord knows whom He wants to preside in His Church, and sometimes it takes a lot of practicing, guiding, testing, before He may know whether or not one of us is prepared for the present assignment.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • God
  • May
  • Remember

• I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him, 'Keep the spotlight of your Spirit on me so there would be nothing impure or unholy in my life.' That's been my prayer for 50 years.

  

  Bill Bright
  • God
  • Desire
  • Prayer

• From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • God