Lyman Abbott Quotes

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

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• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • True
  • Always
  • Debt

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • End
  • Just Because

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Care
  • Mistakes

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Good
  • Church
  • Myself

• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • More
  • Four
  • Thousand

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Good
  • Words

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Important
  • Very
  • Tone

• I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Toy

• I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Great
  • Women

• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Succeed

• My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mother

• Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Mistake

• At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Age
  • Understanding

• People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B.

  

  Marcel Theo Hall
  • School
  • Rock

• Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

  

  Lyman Abbott
  • Life
  • Temptation
  • March