Abridged Quotes

#1. If a householder is a genuine devotee, he performs his duties without attachment; he surrenders the fruit of his work to God - his gain or loss, his pleasure or pain. Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Abridged)

Ramakrishna

#2. Such power I gave the people as might do,
Abridged not what they had, now lavished new,
Those that were great in wealth and high in place
My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace.
Before them both I held my shield of might,
And let not either touch the other's right.

Plutarch

#3. If you treat editing like you're making an abridged version of your book, it can help determine what's vital vs what can be cut.

Kira Hawke

#4. On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.

Jasper Fforde

#5. No people can be truly happy ... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

William Penn

#6. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

Alice Paul

#7. For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

Mordecai Richler

#8. Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that can be looked at to trace matrilineal descent.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#9. All ... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.

Kathy Griffin

#11. Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book ...

Thomas S. Monson

#12. Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.

Antonin Scalia

#13. May I gain no victory that harms me or my opponent. May I reconcile friends who are mad at each other. May I, insofar as I can, give all necessary help to my friends and to all who are in need. May I never fail a friend in trouble.
Prayer on the Golden Rule (abridged)

Eusebius

#14. There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

Dave Barry

#15. I am going to bed. i will have nightmares involving huge monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody butcher knives labeled Excerpt, Selection, Passage, and Abridged.

Helene Hanff

#16. The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.

James Madison

#17. The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

James Madison

#18. Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

Benjamin Franklin

#20. Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Berkeley Breathed

#21. At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Charles Babbage

#22. My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.

Melanie Klein

#23. A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

Brendan Behan

#24. I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

Zoe Tapper

#25. Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

Nelson Mandela

#26. I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.

Helen Mirren

#27. Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.

Esther Peterson

#28. If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

C.S. Lewis

#29. Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Erich Fromm

#30. A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

Martin Luther