Abject Quotes

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What if I arrange to be around Lord Akeldama during the full moon?â€ The earl looked daggers. â€œI am certain he would be extremely helpful… — Gail Carriger
She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself. — David Foster Wallace
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject… — Hector Hugh Munro
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded â€” here and there, now and then â€”… — Robert A. Heinlein
When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they… — Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. — Tryon Edwards
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
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at… — Bill Gates
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve. — Jose Marti
How can a heart suffer your deepest thoughts and yet only speak the unmoving, inconsequential utterances of abject silence? — Anne Austin
Simplicity is not leading a very simple life with bountiful wealth and luxury that one can lay hands on, but building no desire to have… — Anuj Somany
Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is… — John Dickinson
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with aspirit of liberty; as superstition, on the contrary, renders men tame and… — David Hume

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