Abattement Quotes

#1. This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees

William Makepeace Thackeray

#2. On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'

Jake LaMotta

#3. The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

Alex Tabarrok

#4. Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

Ruth First

#5. It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

Barkhad Abdi

#6. Without words, protestations, or vows, I have laid my life in your hands. You fail me, and, I repeat once more, you are quite right in acting thus; nevertheless in losing you I lose part of my life.

Alexandre Dumas

#7. To be cut down to size is good for all of us, but particularly so for those who forget how transient are our cultures and institutions, how pointless and cruel our divisions, how vain our claims to special status for our practices and beliefs above those of others.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. The reign of God is his reign over all things.

Lesslie Newbigin

#9. The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent

Jack Straw

#10. For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level of the immediate moment - but in the prospect of suffering to come, the rich future that one can imagine one's torture enjoying.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

#11. Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

Jack Youngblood

#12. People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

Andrew Cuomo

#13. In Life you have to choose between wanting to be right or to be happy

Denis Gorce-Bourge

#14. If God chooses quite another lot for you, you may be sure that He sees that you need something totally different from what you want.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss