Abolin Quotes & Sayings

It is a great joy to work for what you want. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When one sins, one should sin magnificently. — Nora Roberts

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say. — Dick Morris

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line. — Ron Wyden

Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact a free market puts a premium on empathy. — Steven Pinker

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle.

I once mentioned in a school report, how a young man in one of our English training colleges having to paraphrase the passage in Macbeth beginning,

Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased?

turned this line into, "Can you not wait upon the lunatic?" And I remarked what a curious state of things it would be, if every pupil of our national schools knew, let us say, that the moon is two thousand one hundred and sixty miles in diameter, and thought at the same time that a good paraphrase for

Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased?

was, "Can you not wait upon the lunatic?" If one is driven to choose, I think I would rather have a young person ignorant about the moon's diameter, but aware that "Can you not wait upon the lunatic?" is bad, than a young person whose education had been such as to manage things the other way — Matthew Arnold

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties. — William Hepworth Thompson

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number. — Derek Fisher

I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them in the woods. They scare me. All men. Dirty and wearing red. — Edan Lepucki