Edward Abbey Quotes
Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.Edward Abbey
Quotes to Explore
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
Carine Roitfeld -
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
Sam Harris -
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
Calamity Jane -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter -
I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
Magdalena Frackowiak
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Barbara Deming -
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
Jack Vance -
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
Zig Ziglar -
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
Carl von Clausewitz -
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
Tariq Ramadan -
In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
Rafael Nadal -
I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
Patrick deWitt -
Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
Laure Manaudou -
I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
Cameron Dallas -
I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Some people might shy away from a character like Deathstroke because, you know, all of the blood-letting and the swordplay and violence and all that other stuff.
Christopher Priest -
The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
Ralph Marston -
One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Jeanne Moreau -
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
Jonathan Sacks -
I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God - and that makes the difference.
Tim Scott -
Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
Edward Abbey