Abjuring Quotes

#1. Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.

James Sallis

#2. Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

James Whistler

#3. I'd left with the notion that I'd made a fool of myself. I guess we never really do understand what people think of us. We spend so much time worrying about the impression we made, when in reality, they're probably thinking about what to cook for dinner instead.

Erica Larsen

#4. Morality depends on culture. Culture depends on climate.

Tom Robbins

#5. Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands ... For it's only in Your will that I am free.

Robin Mark

#6. My lifetime is my existence in a sacred moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I accept my body and its defects.
I accept my character
and its weaknesses.
I love myself as a perfect part
of a perfect Whole.

Human Angels

#8. Instead of embroidering silk, I embroider skin.

Sarah Fine

#9. The road, and the mysteries that lie along it, calls out to none as it calls to the young.

Stephen King

#10. Sin: I've survived a winter in Siberia when I was ten.
Boyd: what were you doing there at ten years old?
Sin: searching for Santa Claus.

Santino Hassell