Anacronic Quotes & Sayings

It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy. — Amir Taheri

Your actions and devotion define your destination. — Debasish Mridha

I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics. — Laura Marling

The German astronomer Johannes Kepler coined the term "camera obscura" in the early seventeenth century, but by then the phenomenon had been known for millennia; in fact, it is perhaps the oldest known optical illusion. Some form of camera obscura was most likely behind a popular illusion performed in ancient Greece and Rome, in which spectral images were cast upon the smoke of burning incense by performers using concave metal mirrors - hence the expression "smoke and mirrors. — Jennifer Ouellette

In Wright Morris's novel Plains Song, the narrator asks, "Is the past a story we are persuaded to believe, in the teeth of the life we endure in the present?" The question is always open. How we treat our world and each other grows from our vision of how we have come to where we are. Ultimately, of course, the issue is not survival but decency and common sense. Everything passes, the psalmist reminds us. No one escapes. The best we can hope is to learn a little from the speaking dead, to find in our deep past some help in acting wisely in the teeth of life. — Elliott West

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. — Jean Cocteau

The Once and Future King. By T. H. White, — Helen Macdonald

Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.' — Maya Angelou

It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship. — James Dobson