Abatements For The Blind Quotes & Sayings

Falling in love wouldn't have been such a disaster if she'd been curious or even willing to travel. But no, he'd fallen for a woman with roots so deep into an estate that she was willing to stay on even when she no longer had any claim to it. — Suzanne Enoch

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius. — Robert Schumann

The absurdity of it, she thought, this quest for the love of a man who was her equal. She loathed herself for it. She thought of her life (and herself) as a missed opportunity. Somewhere, back there, she had missed something. What was it? When was it? The worse horror beneath: that she hadn't missed anything, that her life was merely the sum of her choices and that her choices had led her to this: another truncated encounter; the carcinogenic belief in the idea of a Great Love; clammy sex; loneliness in the small hours. — Glen Duncan

Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you ... "
"Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically. — J.K. Rowling

But before she could speak another word, he crushed his mouth against hers. — Morgan Rhodes

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct. — Larry Page

Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.
Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans. — Akash Lakhotia

We need to understand, to really grasp at an elemental level, that the definitive revolution is the spiritual awakening of humankind. — Rory McEntee

May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You don't watch many movies, do you?"
"Fraid not," he said. "I never had much interest in movies. 'Sides that, the nearest cinema was almost two hours from my home."
"What about cable TV?"
"No cable."
"Satellite?"
"Nope."
"No Internet either?"
He shook his head.
"Are you serious?" she asked, incredulous. "How did you ever survive?"
"Where I come from, there was always something more interesting to do outside."
"And where was that?" she asked. "Mars? — Victoria Vane

People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of. — Jonah Peretti

She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile. — Stephen King

The question about the Salafi is an important question as I say in Arab Awakening, and have often repeated since. I am really underlining the importance of this, because we really don't have very good memories. Remember - the Taliban in Afghanistan were not at all politicised in the beginning. They were just on about education. And then they were pushed by the Saudi and the Americans to be against the Russian colonisation, and as a result they came to be politicised. — Tariq Ramadan

The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide. — Dinesh D'Souza