Abiding famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.
-- Anthony Burgess -
They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.
-- Arjuna Ardagh -
My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That's still what drives me every single day.
-- Barack Obama -
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
-- Brent Weeks -
I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.
-- Burl Ives -
Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington -
Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.
-- Charlotte Mason -
An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'
-- Claire Messud -
A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status
-- D. B. Weiss -
The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.
-- Doug Peacock -
There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.
-- Edward Abbey -
If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.
-- Emanuel Steward -
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.
-- Gene Robinson -
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.
-- George Orwell -
The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.
-- George V. Higgins -
The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.
-- Hartley Coleridge -
WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.
-- Herbert Wind -
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.
-- J. D. McClatchy -
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
-- Jack London -
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
-- James E. Talmage -
O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.
-- John Keble -
How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?
-- Jonathan Falwell -
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
-- Kate Atkinson -
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.
-- Leo Baeck -
We need to commit to serve the Lord and our communities with the same diligence and faith that the pioneers had. We must ever be on our guard that we do not become casual in keeping God's commandments, in abiding by His laws, and in being honest and trustworthy in all that we do.
-- M. Russell Ballard -
Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
-- Nelson DeMille -
Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.
-- Oswald Chambers -
We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.
-- Paul Broun -
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
-- Rand Paul -
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
-- Rick Perry -
Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.
-- Rob Bishop -
When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.
-- Robert Adams -
Untested faith was rarely strong. Deep, abiding faith was tempered through fire.
-- Robin Lee -
I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism.
-- Russ Feingold -
Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.
-- Shantideva -
The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope that we can all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.
-- Sherwin B. Nuland -
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
-- Theodore Bikel -
Because the Scriptures say that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him, we need not conclude that a murderer cannot be saved. He can be if he will come to Christ and receive Him as Savior.
-- Theodore Epp -
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.
-- Umar -
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
-- Vera Brittain -
Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.
-- Warren W. Wiersbe -
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
-- William Butler Yeats -
How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.
-- William Schreyer -
Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends.
-- Andre Naffis-Sahely -
I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.
-- Liz W. Garcia -
Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne -
There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.
-- Tim O'Brien -
They are fuelled by an ideology that itself is non-negotiable and forms a continuum that links peaceful, law-abiding but nevertheless intensely ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other.
-- Melanie Phillips -
All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.
-- Bill Johnson
