#ten

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#finding #intent #kill #never #presented

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#begin #coexistence #courage #designs #destruction

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#difficult #hearers #keep #more #readers

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#epics #first #intended #literary #meant

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#easier #familiar #glorified #hours #listen

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead. ↗

— Scott Adams

#compensate #dead #pretend #tiny #way

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for? ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#ask #beautiful #could #descriptions #ever

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #pride-and-prejudice #respect

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. ↗

— Henry Adams

#commit #day #existence #human #human race

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#had #i #kindergarten #same #since