Abdicated Quotes

#1. Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

Ted Cruz

#2. When Germany declared itself ready to discuss an armistice, Wilson refused to negotiate until the Kaiser abdicated.

Henry Kissinger

#3. For all I know,he may be a prince in disguise; he rather looks like one, by the way- like a prince who has abdicated in a fit of magnanimity, and has been in a state of disgust ever since.

Henry James

#4. He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#5. Her parents had basically abdicated their roles as guardians and she was building a bomb. In order to kill a poodle.

Kristen Tracy

#6. See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left - no, nor despair -
To break his teeth on the bars.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#7. If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Stephen Covey

#8. After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

Edward Snowden

#9. This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

Neil Young

#10. A few shy stars and a pale moon had already appeared in the sky, ready to take up reign from the sun that had abdicated for the night.

Irina Shapiro

#11. So we abdicated, and the predictable followed: one, the world as we know is unraveling, particularly in the Middle East; and, two, most suddenly want more, not less, U.S. engagement.

Anonymous

#12. (connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated could not uninterruptedly dissimulate);

George Eliot

#13. I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life for His children. In His own words he told his disciples that His meat was to do the will of the Father.

Monica Johnson

#14. Indolent, and he was suffering greatly from gout. He abdicated.

H.G.Wells

#15. By simply refusing to fund a president's unconstitutional conduct, Congress can stop him dead in his tracks - even after the courts have abdicated their responsibilities to do so.

Mike Lee

#16. He felt as if he'd woken up, weak and confused, only to be told that he'd spent the last three weeks in bed with a fever
and that during his illness, Queen Victoria had abdicated the throne and run off with a lion-tamer from Birmingham. The world seemed an entirely different place.

Courtney Milan

#17. The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Khalil Gibran

#18. The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

Sherman Alexie

#19. Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

Anna Quindlen

#20. In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!

Frances O'Connor

#21. There isn't a story in the world that isn't in part, at least, addressed to the past. I

Colum McCann

#22. The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Theodore Roosevelt

#23. We talked and talked and talked. Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears, at least in my experience. As we talked, lights flicked on inside my head; by the end of the night I was a planterium.

Marisa De Los Santos

#24. The heavy scent of perfume and the red slashes of lipstick, so strong in the fifties, revolted me. For a time I resented her. She was the messenger and also the message

Patti Smith

#25. I want my money back!

Elin Hilderbrand

#26. I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on.

Shawn Wayans

#27. A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

Dean Ornish

#28. Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

Roberta Flack

#29. People with hearts filled with love, peace, and compassion live in heaven.

Debbie Ford

#30. As a matter of fact I've been asked to come when I'm free to play at the White House.

Dikembe Mutombo

#31. The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.

Billy Graham

#32. Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Thomas Aquinas

#33. I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up

Lauren DeStefano