Abstemious Part Quotes & Sayings

A lot of my work is about developing relationships with corporate partners such as Jaguar and Diageo. — Ben Elliot

Bees are excellent engineers, better than even you. They are are hard workers...They are as brave as Indian warriors. And they make honey. Far better than humans, my friend. — Luis Alberto Urrea

In a flash of self-comprehension, Roger Brevard knew that he would never, as he had hped, leave Salem. He was abstemious man, one of a family of long lives, and he would linger here, increasingly unimportant, for a great while, an old man in new epochs, isolated among strange people and prejudices. Whatever the cause - the small safety or an inward flaw - he had never been part of the corporate sweating humanity where, in the war of spirit and flesh, the vital rewards and accomplishments were found. — Joseph Hergesheimer

But who, save the nerve-worn and sleepless, or thinkers standing with hands to the eyes on some crag above the multitude, see things thus in skeleton outline, bare of flesh? — Virginia Woolf

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other. — Garry Wills

At some point, I told myself: the dress doesn't own you, you own the dress! So act like it and attack. — Magdalena Frackowiak

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. — George Orwell

I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. — Anais Nin

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour. — Hans Fallada

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted. — Ian McKellen