Top 22 Abided Quotes
#1. This emptiness inside of me here," he placed my hand on his chest, "means I love you. When you're not here, I can't focus. It's too loud . . . But my heartbeat does this when you're close.
Amber L. Johnson
#2. To compensate for this undercurrent of uselessness, we pretend we're all terribly important and that we have something to bring to the world.
Ruby Wax
#3. For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.
Anthony Marra
#4. From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.
Mark Shields
#5. He'd often ignored his uncle's teachings about gentlemanly behavior, but one stricture he'd always abided by: no man worth his salt took advantage of a woman.
Sabrina Jeffries
#6. So much simpler, to kill for gold. It did not matter what anyone thought about that. The only rules he abided were those of the Old One, and she cared nothing for war beyond forcing mortals to consider the price of it.
F.T. McKinstry
#7. Music reminds us that the universe loves us
James Taylor
#8. No matter what the challenge, Aurore always felt stronger on her own territory. Her deepest faith abided in her vines. She knew her childhood home on Cyprus like she knew her own body.
Suzanne Stroh
#9. Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.
Thomas Pynchon
#10. The account of how a form of American slavery persisted into the twentieth century, embraced by the U.S. economic system and abided at all levels of government, offered a concrete answer to that fear for the first time.
Douglas A. Blackmon
#11. Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.
Jane Bowles
#12. The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.
Jessamyn West
#13. If everyone on Wall Street abided by the rule's spirit, the rule would have established a new fairness in the U.S. stock market.
Michael Lewis
#15. I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.
Stanislaw Lem
#16. We should have abided by our larval condition, dispensed with evolution, remained incomplete, delighting in the elemental siesta and calmly consuming ourselves in an embryonic ecstasy.
Emil Cioran
#17. All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
#18. I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#19. As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.
Darcey Steinke
#20. God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
Julian Of Norwich
#21. I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.
Patton Oswalt
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