Abiding Quotes
237 quotes by 221 authors
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Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
— Luis Bunuel
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Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart,…
— Pope Francis
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...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of…
— Don Kates
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Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to…
— James Bovard
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So, will his new gun laws - aimed primarily at law-abiding firearms owners - reduce the crime rate even further? Rock is hesitant to give…
— Allan Rock
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be…
— Thomas Szasz
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First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and…
— Alexander Lebed
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Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen…
— Tony Blair
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There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want…
— Sheryl Crow
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We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man…
— Shoghi Effendi
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Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
— James E. Talmage
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It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
— Wallace Stegner
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The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders,…
— Henry Grady Weaver
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There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.
— Edward Abbey
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They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots.…
— Bobby Sands
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Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness…
— Charles Hodge
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The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with…
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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