Abstemiousness Def Quotes & Sayings

This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope. — Richard Adams

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told. — John Green

You haven't lived until you've died in California — Mort Sahl

For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. — Henry David Thoreau

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy. — Bob Taft

The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other. — Chris Rock

I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out. — John Webster

She was the still point in the turning world. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life. — Og Mandino

Unable to help herself, she traced the tat, startled by the black and red ink mixed together. But it was the dragon design itself that made her skin prickle with awareness, appreciation. Soul-sucking desire. — Donna Grant

He came in. "Yes, Miss Marshall?"
He looked ... so innocent. Stephen was good at looking innocent; a necessary skill for a man who had a dreadfully mischievous sense of humor. — Courtney Milan

No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God. — W. Phillip Keller