Affectively Quotes & Sayings

Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away. — Nikki Rowe

The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity. — Bruce Lee

Don't do it because it's your job, do it because you can. — Seth Godin

It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world; how they are destroyed. — Bryant McGill

When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence.
Leo looked at Cam expectantly. "Well?"
"Well what?"
"Now is the time when you dredge up one of your blasted Romany sayings. Something about roosters laying eggs, or pigs dancing in the orchard. It's what you always do. Let's have it."
Cam gave him a sardonic glance. "I can't think of one right now."
"By God, I've had to listen to hundreds of them. And Phelan doesn't have to hear even one? — Lisa Kleypas

We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers. — Helen Sharman

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends-not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution. — Charles Krauthammer

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake. — Mike Quigley

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability? — George Eliot

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact. — Rebecca Goldstein

The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial fieldwork experiences and their lives. Illustrating the dense interweaving of the personal and the professional that is the hallmark of anthropology as a vocation, these essays are at once affectively deep reflections, and clear-eyed assessments, of lives often lived 'between here and there.' Alma Gottlieb's idea to stimulate these articles and bring together this collection was inspired. — Sherry Ortner

A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic Time; and the Photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony; so that everything, today, prepares our race for this impotence: to be no longer able to conceive duration, affectively or symbolically: the age of the Photograph is also the age of revolutions, contestations, assassinations, explosions, in short, of impatiences, of everything which denies ripening. — Roland Barthes

Nostalgia lurks, ready to ooze from ambush. — Thomas Pynchon

The intensity of mattering, while ideologically constructed, is nevertheless always beyond
ideological challenge because it is called into existence affectively. — Linda Kintz

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction. — C. H. Dodd