Absurdus Quotes & Sayings

Plus models have personal trainers and go to college.We're not obese, or lazy, or stupid. — Whitney Thompson

Culture in any place always goes top down, never bottom up. We need to step back and look at what kind of environment we have created for ourselves and those around us. It is tough to expect positive behavior in a negative environment. Where lawlessness becomes the law, honest citizens become cheats, crooks and thieves. — Shiv Khera

Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting. — Yannick Noah

The word listen in Latin is audire. If we listen with full attention in which we are totally geared to listen, it's called ob-audire, and that's where the word obedience comes from. Jesus is the obedient one. That means he is total ear, totally open to the love of God. And if we are closed, and to the degree that we are closed, we are surdus. That is the Latin word for deaf. The more "deaf" we get, the more absurdus — Henri J.M. Nouwen

He's got so much drugs and alcohol in him right now that about the only thing I could order him to do and expect a response on would be to smile. — Heather Graham

There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. — Frankie Knuckles

To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is ... let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow. — Vincent Van Gogh

Beauty speaks to us in moments, and then we forget. — Bryant McGill

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them. — Chuck Palahniuk

A lion chased me up a tree and I enjoyed the view from the top. — Confucius

Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true. — Robert Barron

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not ... the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army ... our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms ... — Abraham Lincoln

It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter. — Bob Gill