Abominables Book Quotes & Sayings

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. — Bret Harte

girls," said a cheery voice at the door, and actors and audience — Louisa May Alcott

Funny songs, that's my ticket. I can't remember when it started or why it started, it's just something that I NEEDED. — Jack Black

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn't see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald. — Jon Ronson

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. — Nelson Goodman

I love the idea of embracing your curves and loving yourself while expressing it through fashion. — Hayley Hasselhoff

The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. It's the biggest social injustice imaginable. What we are allowing to happen in this day and age, we are still allowing the color of a child's skin and the Zip code they live in to dictate their educational outcome, and therefore their life outcome. We are robbing them every single day of their futures. And everybody in this country should be infuriated by that. — Michelle Rhee

Don't curse the darkness but light a candle. — Brother Andrew

The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us. — Chuck D

There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fourth Level. There are people elsewhere. It took me two years to learn to apply the lesson - that neither does the world end with the Ship. If you want to accept life, you have to accept the whole bloody universe. The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them. — Alexei Panshin

The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him. — Charles Spurgeon