All Quotes

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
‐‐ Jose Ortega y Gasset

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
‐‐ Quentin Crisp

ABBA was a direct influence on me.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.
‐‐ Danny Danon

Abbey Clancy is incredible. I saw a picture of her in a white suit recently, and she looked amazing. Victoria Beckham always looks classy, and I like Coleen Rooney's style too.
‐‐ Amy Childs

Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.
‐‐ Tim Heidecker

ABC Family is ready to get a new image for themselves, and I think 'Greek' really kind of started that change.
‐‐ Scott Michael Foster

ABC Family is really restructuring their network because there's a new kind of family, so I think they're really trying to step away from that younger audience, and they're bringing a network that can bring more to an older demographic.
‐‐ Matt Dallas

ABC Family is where the good stuff is at. I'm so excited to be a part of this network because they've really done a great job introducing shows that are heartfelt, exciting, and everything you'd want.
‐‐ Skyler Samuels

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites.
‐‐ Eric Andre

ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they're not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals.
‐‐ Tom Shales

ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

Abdias do Nascimento was the first writer who gave me racial consciousness. It was through his books and writings that I first took in the real weight of race in our society. He was the main influence on me because in my family, race was never an issue.
‐‐ Joaquim Barbosa

Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
‐‐ Joe Biden

Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
‐‐ Patrice Motsepe

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
‐‐ Abraham A. Ribicoff

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.
‐‐ Charles Hermite

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
‐‐ Edward Heath

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
‐‐ Golda Meir

Ability is a poor man's wealth.
‐‐ John Wooden

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
‐‐ Lucille Ball

Ability is sexless.
‐‐ John Henry Newman

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
‐‐ Lou Holtz

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
‐‐ Stevie Wonder

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
‐‐ Confucius

Ability without honor is useless.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'
‐‐ Pico Iyer

Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.
‐‐ Curt Weldon

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.
‐‐ Curt Weldon

Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.
‐‐ Aditi Shankardass

Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.
‐‐ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
‐‐ Alveda King

Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
‐‐ Alveda King

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.
‐‐ Cynthia Nixon

Abortion is a question of choice.
‐‐ Robert Casey

Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand.
‐‐ Cynthia Nixon

Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
‐‐ Alveda King

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.
‐‐ Diane Abbott

Abortion is child mortality.
‐‐ Chris Smith

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
‐‐ Robert Casey

Abortion is either OK or it's not.
‐‐ Peggy Noonan

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
‐‐ Potter Stewart

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world.
‐‐ Katha Pollitt