Abstractas Quotes & Sayings

Be who you are and be that well. — Francis De Sales

At the lowest level of explanation, therefore, people are said to perform a behavior because they intend to do so, they have the requisite skills and abilities, and there are no environmental constraints to prevent them from carrying out their intentions (i.e., they have favorable intentions and actual behavioral control). — Martin Fishbein

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. — Abbie Hoffman

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose. — Simone Weil

I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was. — Paul Walker

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity. — Katie Aselton

[T[his isn't just "another day, another dollar." It's more like "another day, another miracle." (213) — Victoria Moran

In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the most important rule of and successful illusion; First the people must want to believe it. — Libba Bray

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us. — Carrie Fisher

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Oh shit. He was serious. And he wanted me. Yes, me, The eternally single woman. — Katie Ashley

Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips. — Nancy Gibbs

I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else. — John Burnham Schwartz

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality. — Marisa Tomei