Classically Abby Quotes & Sayings

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me. — Phil Klay

My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect. — Alex Ebert

An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it. — Peter Sloterdijk

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them. — Chigozie Obioma

There are reports that Russia is actually working with North Korea to encourage "collaboration and cooperation" between the two countries. Yeah, they believe that with Russia's economic power and North Korea's technology, they can be a real threat to 1987. — Jimmy Fallon

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed. — Lorii Myers

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president? — Michael Bloomberg

What hackers do is figure out technology and experiment with it in ways many people never imagined. They also have a strong desire to share this information with others and to explain it to people whose only qualification may be the desire to learn. — Emmanuel Goldstein