Friday, September 14, 2012

Abhor Quotes

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. 
Arthur Conan Doyle 


I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. 
Thomas Jefferson 


People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much. 
Mason Cooley 


The American people abhor a vacuum. 
Theodore Roosevelt 


On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. 
Emanuel Celler 


I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. 
Louis D. Brandeis 


You must show the world that you abhor fighting. 
Desmond Tutu


I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked. 
Richard Dawson 


I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request. 
William Tyndale 


I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. 
Lyman Abbott

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