Well Done Abba Quotes

#1. I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

Boman Irani

#2. I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Abba Eban

#3. History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

#4. Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

#5. Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.

Michael Palin

#6. I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

Lasse Hallstrom

#7. I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#8. Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

Gerry Beckley

#9. I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

Pete Waterman

#10. It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Abba Eban

#11. As we follow Christ in the counsel of the Holy Spirit, resting in the love of our Abba, we no longer fear
for there is no fear in love. We do not fear slippery slopes, we do not fear each other, we do not fear change, and we do not fear our own selves or what other people can do to us.

Sarah Bessey

#12. When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

Agnetha Faltskog

#13. Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

Abba Eban

#14. Bronson always said that, of all the girls, Louisa was most like her mother, and he didn't mean it as a compliment. Both were mercurial, passionate, willful. Louisa had seen despair like Abba's from the inside. She had inherited it the way some daughters came into a silver tray or a set of spoons.

Kelly O'Connor McNees

#15. Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Abba Eban

#16. The Disco Group ABBA": They were beards and teeth and natural breasts and whiteness. I

Chuck Klosterman

#17. Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Abba Eban

#18. Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Abba Eban

#19. Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such as Jesus, Abba, Peace, God or a phrase such as "Abba, I belong to you." ... Without moving your lips, repeat the sacred word inwardly, slowly, and often.

Brennan Manning

#20. I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.

Larry Crabb

#21. It is such an innocent, intuitively discerning mind that helps make the Eastern guru and the Desert Abba "master". Where intimate Source radiates among non-Christians then surely we must be dealing with the "other sheep" manifesting the cosmic Christ.

Tilden Edwards

#22. My life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen.

Toni Collette

#23. I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.

Martin Fry

#24. ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Lasse Hallstrom

#25. I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

Bono

#26. The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

#27. It was about my spirit crying "Abba!" It was about years of hating the church for its hypocrisy and men for the way I'd always wanted my dad to hold me

Emily T. Wierenga

#28. I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.

Agnetha Faltskog

#29. Abba Antony said, "Whatever you find in your heart to do in following God, that do, and remain within yourself in Him.

David Keller

#30. Just wondering where you keep your ABBA collection.

S.E. Culpepper

#31. You seem so far away though you are standing near.
You made me feel alive, but something died I fear.
I really tried to make it out, I wish I understood.
What happened to our love, it used to be so good.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#32. The abba seems far more interested in the effect her presence will have on him than in the effect his teaching may have on her.

Kate Cooper