Abridged Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

We know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill. — Cynthia Heimel

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. — Caterina Fake

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. — Dave Barry

Nobody knows what the future holds, but right now, I'm cool and comfortable and having no second thoughts at all about retirement. I had a good career, I won every world title, but boxing is wear and tear on the body. It's time to hang 'em up. I'm looking forward to working with some up-and-coming kids, going on walks, and taking vacations. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is — J. Allen Hynek

Face it, dude. You nearly did sex on God's table. You're already shame spiralling big-time. — Chuck Palahniuk

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. — Mahatma Gandhi

As Secretary of State I thought of our choices and challenges in three categories: The problems we inherited, including two wars and a global financial crisis; the new, often unexpected events and emerging threats, from the shifting sands of the Middle East to the turbulent waters of the Pacific to the uncharted terrain of cyberspace; and the opportunities presented by an increasingly networked world that could help lay the foundation for — Hillary Rodham Clinton

We believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself. — Kip Winger

You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. — Ridley Scott

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it. — Indira Gandhi

I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget. — John Oliver

-Every problem has a course and a cause. Every cause has effect. Every effect has a consequence, every consequence a solution — Ikechukwu Joseph

I realized there was a piece of me that had been waiting for this to happen ever since we'd become friends - the moment when Sloane would realize I wasn't cool enough, or daring enough, to be her best friend. — Morgan Matson

It's a long-ass book. — Emma Barry