Acabs Infected Quotes

#1. When cleaning I do it the way people go to church - not so much to discover anything new, although I'm alert for new things, but mainly to reacquaint myself with the familiar. It's nice to go over familiar paths.

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. My students, alas, usually lack the confidence to acknowledge what would be their most precious asset for learning: their ignorance.

Mark Edmundson

#3. The story we write today will support the next generation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.

Bai Ling

#5. What other stuff do they teach you at federal agent school? I ask. It shouldn't bother me that he's fitting in so well. So what if he's faking it? Good for him. I guess what bothers me is him faking it better than I am.

Holly Black

#6. We can't hold onto things. Time is like the river. It carries us off, and faster than we would like, most often.

Tracy Rees

#7. If we're not careful, we can replace study of the Bible with study about the Bible.

Anonymous

#8. You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

Orson Scott Card

#9. We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#10. GM [genetically modified] plants are virtually everywhere in the US food chain, but don't have to be labeled, and aren't. Industry lobbyists intend to keep it that way.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.

Vandana Shiva

#12. And here I thought the orgasm came with the coffee.

Wendy Byrne

#13. Everybody thought Barack Obama was going to [inspire people] when he came to Washington, but, you know, the Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.

Jon Stewart

#14. And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. It's strange, but when I have to speak in front of an audience, I find it more comfortable to use my far-from-perfect English than Japanese. I think this is because when I have to speak seriously about something in Japanese I'm overcome with the feeling of being swallowed up in a sea of words.

Haruki Murakami