- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Abject Quotes
Quotes on hardship, humility, and finding strength in hard conditions.
These abject quotes confront hardship directly, including a memory of growing up in abject poverty that led to acting and writing as an escape. Another line insists real intelligence often hides in abject conditions most people avoid seeing.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to school and graduated as class valedictorian - the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school. She became a librarian and then a United Methodist minister.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
On one level, this was the biggest challenge out there - to make a film of this scope, in this amount of time, and to go into a different genre, essentially. Yes, I've done a vampire film, but 'Eclipse' is a very different kind of thing. This is a romantic story, which swings from a darker, more abject feeling to very pure romantic scenes.
- Debt Limit
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- Nov 07, 2020