Absconds With Quotes

#1. When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.

Mike Pompeo

#2. The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

#3. I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#4. Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.

Pierre De Coubertin

#5. This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.

Gary Cooper

#6. Ove is the sort of man who checks the status of all things by giving them a good kick. He

Fredrik Backman

#7. A sight to dream of, not to tell!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#8. You are put on this earth to fulfill your purpose and that is to love, live, serve, share, care, and be happy on the way of life.

Debasish Mridha

#9. What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.

Tavis Smiley

#10. I've always been in touring bands in some capacity.

Chris Stapleton

#11. The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.

Paul Weller

#12. The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.

Hayao Miyazaki

#13. Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it?

Herman Melville

#14. Your heart knows. Your soul remembers.

Colleen Houck

#15. Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

Joan Aiken