Abildso Quotes & Sayings

We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory. — John F. Kennedy

Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry. — Margaret Laurence

Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me." — Nicole Krauss

Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things. — Mina Bissell

We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam's ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader. — John Kasich

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun — Saul Williams

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve. — Dashiell Hammett

Relationship and connection happen in an indefinable space between people, a space that will never be fully known or understood by us. — Stephen King

Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them! — Charles Le Gai Eaton

I should've blown more stuff up. -Coach Gleeson Hedge — Rick Riordan

Are you certain of these accusations?" "I would stake my life on them, my lord Emperor." "You already have. — Drew Karpyshyn

We need grace in our lives, and I'm not talking about heavenly grace. I'm talking about human grace. We should try and be warm and friendly. — Letitia Baldrige

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change. — Eli Broad

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer. — Sheryl Crow