Top 22 Abilene Quotes
#1. Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#2. Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.
David Brooks
#3. Whenever you're in an army group and somebody says, 'I think we're all getting on the bus to Abilene here,' that is a red flag.
Susan Cain
#4. I have already been loved," said Edward. "I have been loved by a girl named Abilene. I have been loved by a fisherman and his wife and a hobo and his dog. I have been loved by a boy who played the harmonica and by a girl who died. Don't talk to me about love," he said. "I have known love.
Kate DiCamillo
#5. Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.
H.W. Brands
#6. Abilene (AB-a-lene) adj. Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.
Douglas Adams
#8. And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said. (page 69)
Kate DiCamillo
#9. I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").
Jane Hirshfield
#10. Forneus glared at us from the driver's seat with eyes glowing with the promise of purple vengeance.
Katherine Pine
#12. Love is a solid foundation upon which to build your new life together.
T.A. Chase
#13. Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere ... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady
Paul Merson
#14. Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism
Robert E. Ornstein
#15. Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#16. All I did was go to sleep. There shouldn't be anything safer than that. (Kiara) Spoken like a true civilian. Trust me, princess, that's the most dangerous thing anyone does ... Well, that, and go to the can. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. But Nora had said, "Oh, no. I don't believe in dative evangelizing." Abby had repeated this later to the girls: "She doesn't believe in 'dative evangelizing.
Anne Tyler
#18. Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are.
Neale Donald Walsch
#19. Time also was said to be an accident: it "exists not by itself; but simply from the things which happen, the sense apprehends what has been done in time past, as well as what is present, and what is to follow after.
Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir
#20. That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
Austin O'Malley
#21. Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values
George Soros
#22. Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.
Joe Fafard
