Abstraitement Quotes & Sayings

Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations. — Debasish Mridha

I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I ... I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more ... never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then. — Michael Cunningham

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book. — Christopher Hitchens

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. — Benjamin Franklin

That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old-time big brains: They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course. It's just fun to think about.' And then, as though in trances, the people would really do it
have slaves fight each other to death in the Colosseum, or burn people alive in the public square for holding opinions which were locally unpopular, or build factories whose only purpose was to kill people in industrial quantities, or to blow up whole cities, and on and on. — Kurt Vonnegut

I like to cook things very slowly. — Daniel Day-Lewis