Top 170 Abject Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
If I cannot address the issue of visible homelessness and abject poverty on the streets of this community, I will not get re-elected in four years.
The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.
When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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.
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.
Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
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 become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.
The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him.
Prayer has never made you right, because right now our world of Islam is filled with abject hypocrisy in its religiosity.
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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.
If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.
The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
Well . . . sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look. It's our floor.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.
We must be welcoming to those who flee their country because of violence and abject poverty in hopes of a better future - that's who we are as Americans.
The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.
Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.
I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.
If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.
Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.
Hillary Clinton cannot run away from her own record of incompetence or from the Obama record of abject betrayal.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.
It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you.
My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.
