Friday, September 14, 2012

Abject Quotes

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. 
Mason Cooley 


Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. 
Baruch Spinoza 


Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. 
Oliver Goldsmith 


When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. 
Christopher Hitchens 


The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. 
Anne Morrow Lindbergh 


Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. 
Kofi Annan 


I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist. 
Berkeley Breathed

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. 
Viola Davis 


The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit. 
Bob Newhart 


Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. 
George Mason 


We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. 
Jane Goodall

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