Abolishment Quotes

#1. It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

Jesse Helms

#2. Throughout world history, all freedom has been no more than repetitious abolishment of what has already been abolished. There is no end to the killing of weeds.

Warren Eyster

#3. I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

Jesse Ventura

#5. But please remember, that in 1991 in the Seym [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic Zones. I demanded the creation of a single Special Economic Zone - which would encompass the whole country!

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#6. Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

Goliarda Sapienza

#7. I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.

Lizz Winstead

#8. The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them.

Michael Scheuer

#9. I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

Jeffrey Deitch

#10. We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Condoleezza Rice

#11. What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#12. he'd wanted to do for years while we dated - the whole princely sweep-you-off-your-feet shit. I liked to keep my feet firmly on the ground unless sex was involved, and you can't really have sex in a horse-drawn carriage; it scares the horses.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#13. Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

Alex Steffen

#14. In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.

Adalbert De Vogue

#15. I don't even like cemeteries. Morgues, either, nor anatomy museums, undertakers' parlors, funeral chapels, or any of those places where the world of the living sparks against the world of the dead, and a spot of burned out time fades, diffuse in an ocean of timelessness.

Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

#16. Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.

Sarah Hay

#17. There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.

John Bonham

#18. When, I want to know, do writers get to simply live their boring lives?

Jonathan Galassi

#19. I became aware of a voice inside my head. [ ... ] It was only later that I realized that this voice was my own thinking, that this moment of anguish was my first inkling that I was a ceaseless monologue trapped within myself.

Yann Martel