Top 16 Abridgments Quotes
#2. Democratic constitutions do allow some suspension of rights in states of emergency. Thus rights are not always trumps. But neither is necessity. Even in times of real danger, political authorities have to prove the case that abridgments of rights are justified.
Michael Ignatieff
#3. I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
David Copperfield
#4. When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
Gail Tsukiyama
#5. I'm a Fool" may not be a great song, but Sinatra's shattering performance of it transcends the material. His emotion is so naked that we're at once embarrassed and compelled: we literally feel for him.
James Kaplan
#6. I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'
Newt Gingrich
#7. In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'
Binyavanga Wainaina
#8. No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
Horace Greeley
#10. Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,
to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.
Jonathan Swift
#11. Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#12. Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.
(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)
Waterstones
#13. The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.
Chris Hardwick
#14. I go up to people and ask if I can use them in my photos. Occasionally it is the person in question, as happened with James Hewitt. How embarrassing. He just laughed and said, 'You can't afford me.'
Alison Jackson
#15. So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.
H.G.Wells
#16. All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.
Ken Keyes Jr.