Matanya Abramson Quotes & Sayings

Any physical addiction, it doesn't matter how long they've been taking it or how full of it their body is, and addiction, would, between three and thirty days, be completely cleared from the system. Usually closer to three days than thirty days. But it is the emotional craving that must be tended to. — Esther Hicks

Finally you get to the age when a book's power to make you think becomes the first thing you notice about it. — Clive James

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. — May Sarton

Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance. — Robert Farrar Capon

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing. — Ken Hill

Other primates get on with their own reproduction relatively soon after weaning, with gorillas having their first baby just seven or so years later. — Marlene Zuk

A pioneer family lived beyond the reach of shopping malls ... — Stephen Baxter

That is nice, Mr. Morgan. Because in response to your tough-guy speech, I, in turn, would've had to give you my tough-girl speech, about where, exactly, federal prosecutors who come to my office looking for assistance can stick their obstruction of justice threats — Julie James

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong. — Frederick Douglass

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about. — Julia Cameron

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers. — Henry David Thoreau