#cent

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#century #dense #filled #helium #i

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#deep #deep inside #helpless #infant #innocent

Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with. ↗

— Abdallah II

#another way #arab #arab world #brotherhood #center

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#been #character #i #me #neil

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#birth certificate #cents #certificate #extra #fifty

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#aware #became #black #black history #book

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#future #give #going #incentive #you

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#available #basketball #become #been #coached

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#future #innocent #innocent people #killing #part

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#coming #confrontation #consequences #costly #destruction