Abridgment Quotes

#1. Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Florence King

#4. I really believe that the movie will never be as good as the book, both because the book goes on longer - a movie is basically an abridgment of a book - and because books are internal. But they are incredibly powerful. The visual format is, you know, amazing.

Scott Turow

#5. I am conscious of a partly pathological hostility toward what is fashionable.

C.S. Lewis

#6. Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Joseph Joubert

#7. Take an hour every day at dawn and give it to your Self. Meet your Self there, in the holy moment. Then go about your day. You will be a different person.

Neale Donald Walsch

#8. We could take his gag away, thought Isaac, and he wouldn't scream ... but then he might speak ... He left the gag in place.

China Mieville

#9. Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one world into another. You will move from the physical to the causal, from matter into pure energy.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

#12. I am alrrready herrre forrr you, Alex. Wheneverrr you need me, as long as you need me. And even longerrr," he said. "It is my duty. But it's also my pleasurrre.

Lisa McMann

#13. I take everything with a grain of salt.

Hope Solo

#14. Our modern science acknowledges a Supreme Power, an Invisible Principle, but denies a Supreme Being, or Personal God.

Helena P Blavasky

#15. Love is the outlaw's duty.

Jayne Anne Phillips

#16. Understand - motherhood, for a dog, is not an emotional experience, it is an instinctual experience.

Anonymous

#17. One should be afraid of life, not of death.

Marlene Dietrich

#18. Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#19. Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.

Caleb Cushing

#20. Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

Ramana Maharshi

#21. If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Washington Allston

#22. Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the press, the abolition of trial by jury, or the abridgment of any other privilege.

Noah Webster

#23. The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

Walter Benjamin