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Letter "A" » abject
«Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abject, assistance, brace, braces, confront, frantic, grovel, groveled, groveling, submission
«Water is the abject necessity for any kind of life to exist. »
«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.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| Keywords:
abject, get by, loneliness, sea, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates, stimulating, subdue, subdues, The Sea
«There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
abject, approval, bottomless, gape, gaped, gapes, gaping, Grown up, lures, no doubt, show business, terrifying, Vessels
«Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it»
«If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
| About:
Peace
| Keywords:
abject, equate, equated, pacifism, ruthless
«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.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
abject, billions, countries, developing, developing countries, industrialize, industrialized, markets, Open market, pulling, realistic, sustaining
«Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
abject, commerce, disinterested, equals, intercourse, slaves, tyrants
«Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.»
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