Abvent Quotes & Sayings

I don't want what I can't have. I don't want to want what I can't have. -Nate — Lori L. Otto

Give me homesickness.
Flash.
Give me nostalgic childhood yearnings.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk

Many people worked with the inspiration to free the country by throwing the British out. After formal departure of the British this inspiration slackened. In fact there was no need to have this much inspiration. We should remember that in our pledge we have talked of the freedom of the country through defending religion and culture. There is no mention of departure of the British in that. — M. S. Golwalkar

If you think it's offensive that I call alleged biblical miracles ridiculous, you should ask yourself whether or not it's ridiculous to insist that Muhammad flew on a winged horse. Or that the earth was hatched from a cosmic egg? Or that Xenu, the dictator of the Galactic Confederacy, brought billions of his people to earth 75 million years ago and killed them using hydrogen bombs? These are all religious beliefs of others, but that doesn't mean calling them ridiculous is an insult - it's an objective fact until proven otherwise. — David G. McAfee

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers. They introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientific objectivity. — Carl Sagan

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen. — Nathan Filer

Education is neither eastern nor western. — Malala Yousafzai

If you loved someone for many years, you become instinctively aware of his feelings, even divine his thoughts and anticipate his actions, so that it would seem that you two have really become one. — F. Sionil Jose

Be yourself, you're already fully equipped to succeed at that. — Rob Liano

Women, I thought: if they fell over a cliff and thought there was company waiting at the bottom, they'd comb their hair on the way down. — Alistair MacLean

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. — Jean De La Fontaine

When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. — Beck

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done. — Wendy Davis