Abstractively Quotes & Sayings

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job. — Katharine Weymouth

When the kingdom of God is manifested, it's obvious. It looks like Jesus. But America as a nation has clearly never looked remotely like Jesus. There was nothing distinctively Christlike about the way America was "discovered," conquered, or governed in the early years. To the contrary, the way this nation was "discovered," conquered, and governed was a rather typical, barbaric, violent, kingdom-of-the-world affair. The immoral barbarism displayed in the early (and subsequent) years of this country was, sadly, pretty typical by kingdom-of-the-world standards. The fact that it was largely done under the banner of Christ doesn't make it more Christian, any more than any other bloody conquest done in Jesus' name throughout history (such as the Crusades and the Inquisition) qualifies them as Christlike. — Gregory A. Boyd

Why demand ye of me where the land of Oomaldee lies? Did they do the same of C.S. Lewis and his Narnia? — L.R.W. Lee

It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance. — Jonah Hill

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

If I'm moving too fast or coming on too hard... — N.D. Jones

When we have simplicity we have so much more freedom in every single aspect of our lives. Maybe it's a classic case of less is more? Less stress, less worries, more time, more happiness. — Evan Sutter

The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success. — David Ignatius

Shame holds more value than coin ever can." He — Leigh Bardugo

If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them. — Stacy Allison

Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities. — Kenny Smith

Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space! — Hal Duncan

I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for supplying tomatoes to the Parliament House kitchen. But, no, as I soon learnt as industry minister, it was in fact a government funded redoubt of veritable soldiers in a war against carbon dioxide. The zealotry and obsessive passion of these warriors in the battle against the apparent evils of carbon dioxide remains a curiosity to me. After fighting these people for three years as industry minister, I really did wish they would just go away and grow tomatoes. — Nick Minchin

I do have an important question, but I can ask it from out here. Are you dry?
Of course I'm dry. Why do you ask that?
So many daughters have come home wet lately. — Jeanne Birdsall

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you. — Ayn Rand