Abled Means Quotes

#1. I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square.

Charles Dickens

#2. To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

Suzanne Massie

#3. The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Guy De Maupassant

#4. America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

Ezra Pound

#5. There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!

Diana Vreeland

#6. The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism - the founding of a state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#7. One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.

Tony Campolo

#8. Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.

Patrick W. Carr

#9. I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

Reza Aslan

#10. It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#11. The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#12. Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

Mao Zedong