Assefa Abate Quotes & Sayings

That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard. — Polybius

I loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. You're like, you know, 14 and expressing yourself on a daily basis creatively? That's pretty incredible. — Melonie Diaz

You're my religion. You're all I've got. — Ernest Hemingway,

I have a necklace around my neck that my lady gave me, so I try never to leave home without that. — Chad Michael Murray

Does history record any case in which the majority was right? — Robert A. Heinlein

Why do you talk all the time?" I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully.
"I think it's 'cause I don't know any big words, like you and Mummy," she said, just in time to pull me out of my magazine again, "so I have to use lots and lots of little ones. — Theodore Sturgeon

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers. — Ron Dennis

I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones. — Ryan Tedder

Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality. — Martial

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. — John Galt

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative. — John Warnock

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals. — Michael Moore

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world. — Michael Mandelbaum