Abaddons Cowl Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I felt the whole world was converging on this little room. And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up, and look across the gardens, lawns, greenhouses, sheds and curtained windows. I wanted my life to begin now, at this instant, just when I was ready for it. — Hanif Kureishi

In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much practical interest in what those two sincere and hard-working fellows actually preached. — Edward Abbey

Nothing secure unlesse suspected. — George Herbert

There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself. — Brendan Behan

If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life. — Gangaji

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable. — Aristotle.

Human history's greatest crime was the traffic in black flesh when the devil white man went into Africa and murdered and kidnapped to bring to the West in chains, in slave ships, millions of black men, women, and children, who were worked and beaten and tortured as slaves. — Malcolm X

It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions. — R. Scott Bakker

You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country. — Richard Cobden

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true. — Alfred Molina

I think I'm going to do a workout tape called 'Hand to God to Abs of Steel.' — Geneva Carr

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models. — Jack Canfield

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken. — Stephen R. Covey

If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough. — Ilyas Kassam