Abassians Quotes & Sayings

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

Your books are so easy to read; I could not put them down — Chris Davies Curtis

The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself. — Bell Hooks

We must remember that excellence is not perfection but the pursuit of perfection. And pursuit is what Jesus had in mind when he stated, "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). Too, excellence is not being the best; it is becoming your best. Excellence is a process of becoming the best man you can be in all areas of life. — Zondervan Publishing

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade. — Jane Lynch

Those who are not being dragged to their deaths cannot understand how the heart grows hard and sharp, until it is a nest of rocks with only an empty egg in it. — Hannah Kent

Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all. — Sarah Vowell

Have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, — Charles Dickens

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world. — Keith Miller

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we've collected all that we are? — Jonathan Evison