Aadil Abedi Quotes & Sayings

My soul longs to feel itself more of a pilgrim and stranger here below; that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house. — Jonathan Edwards

Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt. — Christos Tsiolkas

But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives. — Paul Begala

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera. — Ian Hamilton Finlay

Where there's life, there's learning, and the truth is always calling us out of our pride. If we don't harken, it will call louder, and throw a situation at us. A pebble at first. If we still don't listen, we'll get a stone. Then a rock. Then a great crashing boulder. We must learn, or die. — Orna Ross

An emaciated gospel leads to emaciated worship — Greg Gilbert

People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor. — Nicola Sturgeon

christmas is a time when you get homesick-even when you're home. — Carol Nelson

I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home. — Deborah Moggach

Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that. — Ben Horowitz

When I reached the bar, I ordered a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster from the female Klingon bartender and downed half of it. — Ernest Cline

I wouldn't like to live in a castle now, but I'd enjoy a visit to Restormel in Cornwall in its 13th century prime. It's a circular castle with the rooms built against the outer walls and quite intimate in size. Life there wouldn't follow the pattern of more classic castle design. — Jo Beverley

Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there. — Natasha Josefowitz

I wasn't big on family gatherings. Too many intimate strangers. I smiled a lot, but really I never knew what to say. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace. — Martin Luther King Jr.