Abraces O Quotes & Sayings

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses, and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more tame and cheap ... and some worldly miser with a surveyor looking after his bounds, while heaven had taken place around him, and he did not see the angles going to and fro, but was looking for an old post-hole in the midst of paradise. I looked again, and saw him standing in the middle of a boggy, stygian, fen, surrounded by devils, and he had found his bounds without a doubt, three little stones, where a stake had been driven, and looking nearer, I saw that the prince of Darkness was his surveyor. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State. — Tom Izzo

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own — Erich Fromm

He discounted the value of his own efforts, and seemed to feel that anyone would have done the same. — Yoko Ogawa

I have several children who I'm turning into killers. Wait till they grow up. — David Berkowitz

What's the point of a spark of light if it stands alone? The key is, and will always be, synergy. Without it, each and every light being will forever feel broken, misplaced, and internally crippled. — Suzy Kassem

I doubt if she's ever used a broom in her life," he said sarcastically. "Except to ride on, of course. — Doreen Owens Malek

Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats. — Matt Taibbi