Abstractedly In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

Everything at a distance turns into
poetry; distant mountains, distant
people, distant events; all become
Romantic. — Novalis

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. — George Bernard Shaw

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage. — William Beckford

What we gotta do is, we gotta figure out a way to reverse gravity, so that we all fall upward, through the clouds and sky, all the way to Heaven. — Justin Torres

Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature. — Charles Babbage

I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money. — Nicholas Kristof

They do not like evidence like that, anything too definite because our first instinct is to find flaws and debunk. They want to be discussed and portrayed, but never proven. They want to be credited as the true makers of the pyramids and lifters of Stonehenge when it had much more to do with the gods who were then extant. — Thomm Quackenbush

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Only the Church offered an organizing principle, which was the reason for its success, for society cannot bear anarchy. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Don't just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life. — Joel Osteen

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right. — Muhammad Ali

Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it. — Sunday Adelaja

Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love. — Julian Gough

Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing. — Paul Dano