Abajour Quotes & Sayings

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants. — Gustav Stresemann

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if it bores you, you can move on. — Sarah Morgan

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you. — Ruth Wilson

Can you ... make it different this time?"
"Different, how?"
"Different position, different ... something. I want to learn it all."
Whoa, pressure. When Maira's genius brain wanted to learn something, she really applied herself. — Alisha Rai

There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic, where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws. [ ... ] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [ ... ]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed. — Lucian Of Samosata

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table. The — A.W. Tozer

I took some time to evaluate them, and concluded that fashionable dress was heavily dependent on who was wearing it. I — Robert B. Parker

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose. — Madeleine K. Albright

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? — William Blake

If people hate me they hate me. — Uwe Boll

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story. — Ella Fitzgerald

Everything comes down to attitude: You determine what yours is, and the external world will reflect it back. — Laird Hamilton

I stood staring at myself in the mirror trying to reconcile dual images. I was hunting the monster that had killed my sister. I was the monster that had killed his brother. — Karen Marie Moning

Family members provided a variety of support--physical, economic, emotional, and psychological... Parents opened bank accounts for their children, even those who were adult, away from home, married, and employed. And children who left Richmond to search for work elsewhere provided for the money in their savings accounts to be used by other relatives, if needed, during their absence. In all these ways African American women and men testified to the notion of family members as having a mutual and continuing responsibility to help each other and to prepare for hard times. — Elsa Barkley Brown