Abbey D'agostino Quotes

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers. — Edward Abbey

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds. — Edward Abbey

In the first place, you can't see anything from a car. — Ed Abbey

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner
if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!' — Edward Abbey

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear. — Edward Abbey

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. — Edward Abbey

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great. — Edward Abbey

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. — Lynn Abbey

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height. — Edward Abbey

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. — Edward Abbey

I'd never realized, never dreamt, that a relationship without something as simple as a touch could be so hard - Abbey — Jessica Verday

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one. — Edward Abbey

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper. — Edward Abbey

Would you do it if you were me?
If I was you I'd do whatever you would do. — Edward Abbey

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving. — Edward Abbey

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. — Edward Abbey

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. — Edward Abbey

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you
can you really be in love with James? — Jane Austen

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. — Edward Abbey

The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?) — Edward Abbey

Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization. — Edward Abbey

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them? — Edward Abbey

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. — Edward Abbey

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view. — Edward Abbey

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I'd got 'Downton Abbey' when I was 22. — Lesley Nicol

I'd learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I'd learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about. — Gerry Abbey

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake. — Edward Abbey

I do love you. I'd be one miserable and lonesome man without you around. — Edward Abbey

I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat. — Abbey Clancy

I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer. — Abbey Clancy

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. — Edward Abbey

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. — Edward Abbey

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it. — Edward Abbey

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. — Edward Abbey

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. — Edward Abbey

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. — Jane Austen

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. — Edward Abbey

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried. — Edward Abbey

A world without open country would be universal jail. — Edward Abbey

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.' — Allison Williams

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart. — Abbey Lincoln

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. — Edward Abbey

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. — Lynn Abbey

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate. — Edward Abbey

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41) — Edward Abbey

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow. — Edward Abbey

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else. — Edward Abbey

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. — Edward Abbey

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. — Edward Abbey

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero. — Edward Abbey

I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up. — Abbey Clancy