Abbans Quotes & Sayings

A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us. — Criss Jami

Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter. — Bernard Bailyn

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. — Edmund Hillary

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath

I didn't stand for anything. If I wanted to matter - even just to myself - I would have to be less free, by deciding to choose in some kind of definite way. — David Foster Wallace

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just. — Plautus

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books. — Taslima Nasrin