Abrishamian Quotes & Sayings

Being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to love. — Jeanette Winterson

It's just a trickle at first, dark hallways, empty rooms, but then Angela sees a face. Eyes wide, nostrils flaring, a little girl's mouth covered with taut rope. The room is damp and cold and simple, a chair in the middle of it all. That's where the girl sits in a yellow dress, hands bound, hair wet with sweat and feet dangling off the floor. The chair's much too big for her, and something's coming. Something bad. — E.M. Blomqvist

Where are they now? she thought. Her iPod, her iPhone, her iPad, the I-ness of her life? Her mind stretched around in its memories, searching for her things: She saw her phone on the hotel bedside table in Paris; her iPad in her Louis Vuitton urban satchel; her iPod slipping from her pocket in the restaurant, the night before she ran away. — Jaclyn Moriarty

A good song reminds us what we're fighting for. — Pete Seeger

Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions. — Frans Johansson

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself. — Agatha Christie

That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier. — Bill O'Reilly

Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate. — Pablo Casals

This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous. But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. — Vitruvius Pollio

I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth
the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal. — Martin Luther

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation? — Joshua Emmet

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman. — Jeet Aulakh

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. — Robin Williams

The music that I make is built on layers upon layers of musical ideas. I want to keep it fun and fresh to where listeners won't get everything from just one listen. They can go back to it months, weeks, or even years later and hear something that they didn't ever hear before. That's what it's all about. — Big Boi

Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think. — Alexander Lebed