Abstracto Quotes & Sayings

America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream. — Buzz Aldrin

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect. — Jill Scott

happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create. — Robin S. Sharma

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal. — Franz Grillparzer

My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time. — Kate Voegele

The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the teacher or clergyman, who again are called physicians of the mind only per analogiam. — Ernst Von Feuchtersleben

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life. — Alain De Botton

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried. — Billy Collins

Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball. — Wright Thompson

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy. — Will Oldham

I can't complain about the way I've been marketed because it's been so successful. — Susan Howatch

It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto-it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law. — Edward Coke

There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important. — Chuck Hagel

But the mountains were mighty solemn, and so was Japhy, and for that matter so was I, and in fact laugher is solemn. — Jack Kerouac

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life. — PJ Harvey

The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type. — Georg Cantor

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted. — Sara Sheridan

I remember asking everyone else in my life for forgiveness, but I realize I never asked myself. — A.S. King

Well, I'm sure you know that our country is the only so-called advanced nation that still has a death penalty. And torture chambers. I mean, why screw around? But listen: If anyone here should wind up on a gurney in a lethal-injection facility, maybe the one at Terre Haute, here is what your last words should be: "This will certainly teach me a lesson." If Jesus were alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal. — Kurt Vonnegut