Agonism Quotes & Sayings

Until we are ready to let go of some things, bigger things don't come to us. — Sunday Adelaja

Don't tell stories of a job you almost got. Learn from a loss and don't dwell on it. Move on.' — Lauren Graham

Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion ... A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers — Toby Robins

I looked like an alien, and in front of the most beautiful people on TV. — Christine Taylor

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies — Sinclair Lewis

September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East. — Martin Amis

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. — Jessica Walter

I actually was raised Baptist. I'm from the South, so you definitely know a lot of conservative people. — Clark Duke

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. — Ben Shapiro

Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm. — Simon Critchley

Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless. — Azar Nafisi

I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me. — Gail Honeyman