Abetted Quotes

#1. I reproached them all for not having told me of my son's departure, and for not stopping him, until that interfering old biddy Eurycleia confessed that she alone had aided and abetted him.

Margaret Atwood

#2. The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#3. To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?

Glenn Greenwald

#4. They're a band of miners who aided and abetted an endangered royal named Snow White. They're basically revolutionaries." Hey,

Kresley Cole

#5. Snape might refer to their work as "cleaning," but in Harry's opinion they were really waging was on the house, which was putting up a very good fight, aided and abetted by Kreacher.

J.K. Rowling

#6. With the ebb of lust, an ashen sense of awfulness, abetted by the realistic drabness of a grey neuralgic day, crept over me and hummed within my temples.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.

Angela Lansbury

#8. In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#9. We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

Stephen Jay Gould

#10. When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline, that is a form of terrorism.

Hillary Clinton

#11. Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social, political, historical, metaphysical, logical, or spiritual bases for knowing what is beyond belief.

Neil Postman

#12. The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

Thaddeus Stevens

#13. Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

Jim Butcher

#14. Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

Robert Higgs

#15. The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself ... Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.

George Gershwin

#16. Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance

Tatiana De Rosnay

#17. Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

Jane Yolen

#18. After all, death and life are just two phases of the natural order of things. It seems silly to embrace birth and fear death.

Fiona Paul

#19. In the ends its the things within us, that make us more alike than we will ever know.

Malaika Gilani

#20. We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!

Olga Kurylenko

#21. Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

Larry Wall

#22. Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.

John Blair

#23. Difficulties are better for good persons and bad for bad persons ...

Wasif Ali Wasif

#24. would have recognized the opportunity for a world-class joke, but would never allow myself to be funny at the cost of making somebody else feel like something the cat drug in. Let that be my epitaph. ***

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#25. Sometimes sassy, a little bit nasty but always classy.

The Ardent Rose

#26. How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

David Levithan

#27. Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. This

Malcolm Gladwell

#28. Is an ending really another beginning?

Mark Kramer