Top 27 Abjectly Quotes
#1. Hush, now", she said, stroking his head. "Hush. Dilsey got you." But he bellowed slowly, abjectly, without tears; the grave hopeless sound of all voiceless misery under the sound.
William Faulkner
#2. Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.
John N. Gray
#3. But I wanted to tell you before I left how completely abjectly sorry I am for all the pain I have caused you and that if I die you were the one true love of my life. By the time you read this I will be gone but please know I am still always at your side ... Yours forever Henery William Schoonmaker
Anna Godbersen
#4. Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#5. Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.
Rudyard Kipling
#6. How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!
Richard Le Gallienne
#7. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learned to cling more abjectly to life
John Gray, Doug Platt
#8. Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.
Auberon Herbert
#9. We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
Anne Enright
#10. Any purpose will be entirely purposeless unless it completely exceeds my ability to achieve it for only then is there room for God, and without God purpose of even the most magnificent sort remains utterly and abjectly purposeless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#11. We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
Winston Churchill
#12. I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb.
Sylvia Plath
#13. Good relentlessly calls us to accountability, abjectly refusing to hand us free passes for poor choices and unethical decisions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.
Lawrence Durrell
#15. Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.
Judy Biggert
#16. At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly.
Maria Bello
#17. I was born in New York City, along with a twin sister. I am five minutes older than Emily. It was Emily, for reasons no one knows - she certainly doesn't - who called me Avi. It stuck. It's the only name I use now.
Avi
#18. I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
George Woodcock
#19. That sounds about right for this group. You bleeding hearts are going to be the death of me, I just know it.
Julie Kagawa
#20. My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.
Nikola Tesla
#21. Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens
#22. If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said 'No.'
Margaret Smith
#23. I'll never suppress my identity -- that's like filing away your fingerprints so the money can slide into your pockets easier.
Jonathan Heatt
#24. One crucial thing to keep in mind as you read any Hebrew narrative is the presence of God in the narrative. In any biblical narrative, God is the ultimate character, the supreme hero of the story.
Gordon D. Fee
#27. I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
Asa Gray
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