abandon 

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”
 

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
 

abnormal 

“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”

“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”

 

absorb 

 “Wisdom is a blessing only to those prepared to absorb it.”

 

abundant 
     
“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”

 

abuse 

      “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.”

academic

      “Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.”

 

accelerate     

 “We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.”

access
      “The cats were in and out of the house. They had access to get in and out.”

 accessory     

“It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.”“Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose” accommodate        “You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.”

accomplish

      “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

accord

      “Love is the life of our heart. According to it, we desire, rejoice, hope and despair, fear, take heart, hate, avoid things, feel sad, grow angry, and exult.”

accordingly

      “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

accumulate

      “Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.”
accurate

      “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.”

accuse     

“Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.”

accustomed

      “The hardest part about growing up is letting go with what you have been accustomed to and moving on with something that you haven't experienced yet.”

achieve

      “The tools we want to use to achieve this are seminars, direct mail, the Internet, TV and radio.”

acquaintance

      “A friend is very different from an acquaintance. The former is tried and true; the latter only a casual shadow in one's life.”

acquire

      “The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

acute

      “I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.”

      “One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute”

adapt

      “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”

adequate

      “Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”

adjective

      “Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.”

      “As to the Adjective; when in doubt, strike it out”

adjust

      “Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.”

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

administration

      “It's an effort to avoid taking action. The Bush administration is still in denial.”

adopt

Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.”

      “My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”

advance

      “Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.”

advantage

      “I felt very bad for the people that had gotten robbed and taken advantage of.”

advisable

      “Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”

affect

      “At some point in time, a business decision will have to be made. My concern is that business decisions affect people.”

afford

      “Eventually I want to raise scholarship money for good students who can't afford to come.”

agent

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”

aggressive

      “Gregg really did a great job for us. He's such an aggressive wrestler and he

always jumped at the chance to go up against whomever and help the team. He never

complained - he just wanted to wrestle.”

agony 

     “Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no

blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.”
Alcohol
 

     “Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems.”

alloy

      “Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go

forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.”

      “The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it

lasts when all other pleasures fade.”

allow
      “This piece of equipment allows you to get into spots where there is no other

way to physically maneuver a car.”

      “It's one of the few jobs, considered a service sector, that allows a person

without a significant amount of education to get paid pretty well.”
alphabet

      “Egotism is an alphabet of one letter”

      “Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the

first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.”

alter

      “Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the

remover to remove.”
alternative

      “The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”

      “Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything. You are you and that is

the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets.”

moderate

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
mark

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been

originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

simultaneously

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of

time.

celebrity
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's

their fault.

emphasize
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract

principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we

didn't make it.

immediately. other
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

maintain
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot

maintain our principles unless we survive.

regret
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the

beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
 admission

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

irresponsibility
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the

irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean

voters to be left to decide for themselves.

course
In crises the most daring course is often safest.

 aggressive

      “Gregg really did a great job for us. He's such an aggressive wrestler and he always jumped at the chance to go up against whomever and help the team. He never complained - he just wanted to wrestle.”

agony 

     “Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.”
Alcohol
 

     “Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems.”

alloy

      “Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.”

      “The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”

allow
      “This piece of equipment allows you to get into spots where there is no other way to physically maneuver a car.”

      “It's one of the few jobs, considered a service sector, that allows a person without a significant amount of education to get paid pretty well.”
alphabet

      “Egotism is an alphabet of one letter”

      “Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.”

alter

      “Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.”
alternative

      “The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”

      “Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets.”

moderate

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
mark

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

simultaneously

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

celebrity
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

emphasize
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

immediately. other
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

maintain
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

regret
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
 admission

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

irresponsibility
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

course
In crises the most daring course is often safest.

attitude

amaze
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

ambition

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

amount

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

amplify
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

analyse

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

analysis
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

ancestor
The ancestor of every action is thought.

angle

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
announce

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

annoy
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

annual
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

anticipate

We usually get what we anticipate.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
anxious
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

apart
Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
apologize
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

apparatus
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
appeal
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
appliance
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
apply
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
approach
The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.
approve
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
approximately
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.