Abuts Quotes & Sayings

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. — Maximilien De Robespierre

There is a rule in Hell: Don't trust anyone who takes time out of their day to help you. — Heather Heffner

But this girl, she lived in a bubble, and seeing her out at a frat party was like spotting a unicorn. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles. — Horace Mann

I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just ... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends. — Vincent Gallo

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward. — Amar'e Stoudemire

The Goddess's ways are not always clear.
No, but they are always interesting. — P.C. Cast

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others. — Honore De Balzac

The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it. — Aphex Twin

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching. — George Bernard Shaw

There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap. — Arlene Dickinson

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life. — Ryan Adams

Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing. — Paul Gibbons