Abzs Quotes & Sayings

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back
to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never
yours to begin with. — Jack Engelhard

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.' — Jane Gardam

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. — Nick Bostrom

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had never experienced the sensation. I had known what it was to come back to Gateshead when a child after a long walk, to be scolded for looking cold or gloomy; and later, what it was to come back from church to Lowood, to long for a plenteous meal and a good fire, and to be unable to get either. Neither of these returnings was very pleasant or desirable: no magnet drew me to a given point, increasing in its strength of attraction the nearer I came. The return to Thornfield was yet to be tried. — Charlotte Bronte

Three things trust and cherish well-
The horse on which you ride,
The beast that guards and watches,
And your shield-mate at your side. — Mercedes Lackey

Believe in the doctrine of perfect sanctification attainable in this life. — Adoniram Judson

My mind was no longer functioning on a rational level. For fuck's sake, who needed rational when they boarded a train to insanity? All that was missing were the Oompa Loompas and Willy-fucking-Wonka. — J.A. Saare

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline. — Kathy Freston

A great artist is a great man in a great child. — Victor Hugo

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie — Willie Morris

You ready?" he turned to face me.
"Ready as I'm going to get," I smiled and wished like hell I'd brought a hat. I hate that his hair always looks better than mine. — P.J. Nunn