Abednegos Quotes & Sayings

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so. — Jimmy Carl Black

When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things. But certainly influences early on that I felt from my mother. I wouldn't say she was "political" per se; she was sensitive to other people. — Haskell Wexler

George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in ... Literature" — Robert Kuttner

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism. — Annie Lennox

[ ... ] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abyss? The abyss that waits for all of us, when all our actions seem futile, when the ability to fill the day seems stalled, and the waiting takes on an edge of dread. — Anita Brookner

I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand. — Clayton Christensen

If I become like you, then how can I live with all the things I've done? - X-10 — Donna Galanti

If you face a man's job, find a woman! — John F. Kennedy

Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Being color blind is having the ability to see beyond — Thabiso Monkoe

What time do you need to get ready for college boy?" I looked at my watch. "I probably should leave soon. Do you think it's strange that he's taking me?"
Levi shook his head. "I would find it odd if anybody didn't want to take you anywhere you wanted to go. — Elizabeth Eulberg

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation. — Rajneesh

Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To give me some relief
Because falling's not the problem
When I'm falling I'm in peace
It's only when I hit the ground
It causes all the grief — Florence Welch

It's not about you. It's about them. — Clint Eastwood