Anachronistic Society Quotes & Sayings

What happens when you strip away all the masks a man wears and you find not a face beneath them but nothing at all? — Brent Weeks

The morality of the church is anachronistic. Will it ever develop a moral insight and courage sufficient to cope with the real problems of modern society? If it does it will require generations of effort and not a few martyrdoms. We ministers maintain our pride and self-respect and our sense of importance only through a vast and inclusive ignorance. If we knew the world in which we live a little better we would perish in shame or be overcome by a sense of futility. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men. — Charles Lindbergh

How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you? — Stephenie Meyer

Through the Adult the little person can begin to tell the difference between life as it was taught and demonstrated to him (Parent), life as he felt it or wished it or fantasied it (Child), and life as he figures it out by himself (Adult). — Thomas A. Harris

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it. — Don Hertzfeldt

I remind myself, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." (Cribbed from Voltaire.) A twenty-minute walk that I do is better than the four-mile run that I don't do. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer. The dinner party of take-out Chinese food is better than the elegant dinner that I never host. — Brene Brown

What I carry in my backpack down to the river, I carry not knowing that in less than an hour Thomas Broughton will be dead. That is not a knowledge I carry yet, but I will carry it soon - the knowledge of my darkest self - and I will carry it forever. — Jenny Hubbard

Beck nodded. 'Dig in. Best food you'll ever eat.' She took her first bite and savoured the warm — Mary Burton