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Such Quotes by Edward Abbey
- This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of…
- Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such…
- Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
- Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier…
- Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence…
- If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies…
- How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great…
- Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
- No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that…
- The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children.…
- I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as…
- To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central…
More Such Quotes
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough