Anything less than abject submission has to have some…

“‎"The only abject failure my mind can think of is ones failure to spend Eternity in God's Heaven" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're…

— Benjamin Carson

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that…

— Shawn Amos

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

— David Foster Wallace

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

— Juvenal

“Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a great writer and son of a bitch. Just an abject human being. It’s incredible that the coldest moments of his abjection…

— Roberto Bolaño

The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for…

— David Malpass

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

— Thomas a Kempis

Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful…

— Jean Baudrillard

I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to…

— Madison Smartt Bell

“Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the damage you…

— Dan Pearce

“That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.”

— Walter Moers

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

— Kirk Douglas

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who…

— Katherine Boo

Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar