Abrasia Quotes & Sayings

I love arguing. I always say that I'll never win a physical battle, but I can always win a mental battle. I mean, not really, because I never really argue with anyone. — Shailene Woodley

But there was nothing. No village or town as far as her eyes could strain. Nowhere for her saviours to come from and take her to; just fields and trees and the weeping arc of the river Greave all the way to the horizon. Just like in the books, Greaveburn was all there was; building and building until streets were foundations, roofs were floors, constantly climbing away from itself. now that Abrasia saw it, her dream of escape crumbled completely like an ancient map in her fingers. The horizon was the world's edge and there was nothing beyond it but mist and falling.

Greaveburn stood alone on this little circle of earth, the river running around and into itself like a snake eating its tail. And Abrasia was doomed to watch the sun and stars trade places for all eternity. — Craig Hallam

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. — Wilma Rudolph

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Experience was the most painful of teachers. — Nicholas Sparks

In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort. — Louis MacNeice

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence. — Rollo May

To be worthy of recognition, be humble. — Debasish Mridha

If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness. — Alice Hoffman

Men create the gods after their own images. — Aristotle.

Where do you come from? ... This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together. — Sue Monk Kidd

Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change. — Virgil Miller Newton

When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether. — Joseph Henry Shorthouse