Abiding Quotes
237 quotes by 221 authors
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I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece,…
— Adam Savage
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.
— Wesley Snipes
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You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to…
— Michael Steele
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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
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True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and…
— Ellen G. White
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
— William Butler Yeats
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No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and…
— Julian Baggini
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I am pathetically law-abiding.
— Caitlin Moran
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Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps…
— John Piper
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The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find…
— C.S. Lewis
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She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on…
— Caleb Carr
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To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their…
— Henry Miller
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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…
— Brent Weeks
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense…
— Richard Wright
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In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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