Abstentions Quotes & Sayings

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. — James McHenry

this is a girl who did drugs, who fucked her high school teacher, who chose Berkeley over Stanford. Maybe she really could be one of us. — Jeffrey Toobin

If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. — Abba Eban

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with. — Andrew Stanton

The hands of a clock will find their way home. — Mitch Albom

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry. — Simon Armitage

Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them. — Flora Kidd

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was. — Jordin Sparks

Killing, resurrecting, living with a zombie. Even if she could accept all that, — Richard Laymon

Medicine is so fascinating. — Ellen Pompeo

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. — Thomas A Kempis

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint. — Leon Bloy

Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. William Wordsworth, — James Hollis

Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power. — Lewis Mumford

War, murder, slavery, extermination, and debauchery, - this has again and again been the result of carrying civilization and the blessed gospel to the isles of the sea and the heathen without the law. Nor — W.E.B. Du Bois

I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters. — Hamilton Jordan