Lyman Abbott Quotes

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Lyman Abbott

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• When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • See

• How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Hate

• When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Facts

• We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Done
  • Easy
  • Washington

• The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Understanding
  • Communication
  • Security

• You'll be free or die!

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Free
  • You
  • Die

• I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Makeup

• It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • You
  • Nice
  • Hands

• When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • World
  • Movie

• The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • You
  • Understand
  • First

• When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Everyone
  • Nuts
  • Be Prepared

• The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Change
  • Start
  • Impact

• Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Flying
  • Perfection
  • Engine

• Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Like

• One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.

  

  Irene Dunne

• Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Important

• They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

  

  Kim Wilde

• When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Growing

• With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.'

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • People
  • Song
  • Free

• As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Work
  • Job
  • Bad

• Sometimes, as an actor - and I've witnessed this with other actors that I've worked with - you don't realize that it's not all about the actor.

  

  Krysten Ritter

• German law takes precedence over sharia. The full face veil should be banned, wherever legally possible.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Law
  • German

• It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

  

  Lyman Abbott