Animadversions Quotes & Sayings

I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Hell, any plan that added "and then we pray" is not a trip to Disneyland. — J.R. Ward

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply. — Samuel Johnson

Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything. — Lisa Loeb

A man's story is worth telling only if the truth he discovers is greater than the pain that led him to seek it. — Alan Cohen

To achieve big things you have to have big dreams. — Conrad Hilton

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself. — Elias Lyman Magoon

Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world. — David Berlinski

The look in his eyes reminded me of myself. We were both alone in a new environment, trapped by our circumstances, and we both needed to grow up much faster than planned. Who knew that once I'd have something common with a deer. — A.B. Whelan

The high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come. — Winston Churchill