Abaddons Quotes & Sayings

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength. — Lillian Smith

When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. — Maria Edgeworth

To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way. — Laozi

The crisis of democracy as when normally passive and apathetic populations become organized and seek to enter the political arena to pursue their interests and demands, threatening stability and order. — Noam Chomsky

The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I — Charlotte Bronte

You want something you can't have, Gurgeh. You enjoy your life in the Culture, but it can't provide you with sufficient threats; the true gambler needs the excitement of potential loss, even ruin, to feel wholly alive. — Anonymous

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test. — Henry Spencer

Come, come, come! Fast as you can! I'm fuckin' you hard, I'm the gingerbread man!" he cried in his high, jovial tone. — Fannie Tucker

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions. — Ray Dalio

Okay," I said. "Let's do something really goddamn stupid. — Warren Ellis

I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished. — Jane Green