Anhandra Quotes & Sayings

I fly toward Ky and away from Xander and into what is Outer, different. — Ally Condie

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind. — Robert Bork

No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces. — Victoria Aveyard

The writer, having lost his way in a gloomy forest, and being hindered by certain wild beasts from ascending a mountain, is met by Virgil, who promises to show him the punishments of Hell, and afterwards of Purgatory; and that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman Poet. — Dante Alighieri

It was intolerable what lay hidden within another, intolerable tat you could not divide one person into another with no remainder. — Rebecca Goldstein

Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives. — Camille Paglia

Which got me to wondering whether it's possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead. — John Green

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar. — Lewis Black

Scratching off a postcard to Charlie Taylor, Orville expressed the same spirit in a lighter vein. Flying machine market has been very unsteady the past two days. Opened yesterday morning at about 208 (100% means even chance of success) but by noon had dropped to 110. These fluctuations would have produced a panic, I think, in Wall Street, but in this quiet place it only put us to thinking and figuring a little. — David McCullough

I am with the angels and just completely happy. — Bertrand Piccard

He faced Darktail. "You will take this Clan over my dead body." Delight sparked in Darktail's gaze. "That sounds fair." The rogue leader flung himself at Rowanstar. — Erin Hunter

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
To wear away this long age of three hours
Between our after-supper and bedtime? — William Shakespeare

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head — James Baldwin

The alternative is English force: reprisals and raids and counter-raids and broken promises, as you say. Of course you must try to secure this alliance. You might have achieved it in the last reign but for Henry. It was he who fostered the cult of the honest emotion, and you're still paying for the mistake. — Dorothy Dunnett