Ablative Case Quotes & Sayings

Why do they collect garbarge at 5am? Why? It's garbage. It's not going to go bad again. — Dave Attell

As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819] — Thomas Jefferson

People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you. — Eugenie Scott

It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches. — Deborah Harkness

... reunions, she felt, were not much more than a scratching at the vague itch of memory. And like scratching, they rarely helped - indeed, scratching often made matters worse, as any dermatologist would tell you. — Alexander McCall Smith

Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. — Sylvia Plath

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion, from the Latin root prefix in meaning in and the stem trudo, I thrust. — Muriel Spark

We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it. — Rumi

But the same in the plural in ia must be. E, or i, are the ablative's ends, - mark my song, While or to the nominative case doth belong; For the neuter aforesaid we settle it thus: The plural is ora; the singular us. — Percival Leigh

I've been trying to redefine fragrance since I was a child - before I was ten. Throughout my life, certain fragrance notes have captured my imagination - especially liquorice, violet and anise, flooding back into my consciousness. — Lolita Lempicka

I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes. — Al Madrigal

A straight face is an ignorant man's attempt to appear knowledgeable. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your task in preaching is not to get through your message. Your task is to get through to your audience. — Bill Curtis