Abiding Quotations

The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

Abiding fully means praying much.

The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.

To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope that we can all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.

...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.

Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.

Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

There is no abiding success without commitment.