She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn,… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“"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 Copy Share Image
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
“Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“[the abject] is simply a frontier, a repulsive gift that the Other, having become alter ego, drops so that the "I" does… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image