Abeka Quotes & Sayings

I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story. — Megan Hilty

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past. — Joseph M. Juran

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this
I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain. — Antonin Artaud

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts. — Sterling W. Sill

Not everything needs to be said, some things are just understood. Sometimes one's eyes are enough to express hidden emotions. When two people are truly, madly and deeply in love each other, nature will conspire to bring them together. — Jagdish Joghee

I did not want to hear the pain of my male partner because hearing it required that I surrender my investment in the patriarchal ideal of the male as protector of the wounded. If he was wounded, then how could he protect me? As — Bell Hooks

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded. — Guy Finley

I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don't have to work as hard at my primary school. — Arthur Adamov

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. — August Wilson

think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. Walt Whitman — Bertrand Russell

All we can do is pray, Ma, pray.
No, Child, these are the deeds of human beings. Planned by the brains of humans, and by the warped hearts of humans. It is to people we must speak our words. God has never sided with the defeated. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what the hell are you supposed to say about that person? It's much better to have something between you and your main character that grates. — Henning Mankell

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails. — Owen Jones

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. — Nicole Krauss