Quotes of Edward Abbey

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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers — obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

- Edward Abbey

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“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ The only time we can effect an action is now. So learn from the past, have a vision for your future but act NOW. Today will soon be your past so don’t miss your present. ? ”

- Andrea McGibbon

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

“ Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ Ladies, it’s harvest time!!! Take care of your crops, water them and weed them out. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. ”

- Ezra

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo