Anointment Quotes & Sayings

There's something with the physical size of America ... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. — Mark Haddon

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person. — Jo Brand

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves — Augustine Of Hippo

Better not to have anything. Not even love. If you got attached to something, it only got taken away. Child or adult. Toys or people. No difference — Barbara Elsborg

That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. (Last words.) — Lou Costello

The great, like stars, are not afraid of dark times for that is when they shine the brightest. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity. — Joseph Joubert

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it. — Sigmar Gabriel

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver. — Holt McCallany

That was the worst. What happened was, I got the idea in my head - and I could not get it out - that college was just one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven's sake. What's the difference whether the treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? It all seemed like exactly the same thing to me, if you take off the wrapping - and it still does! Sometimes I think that knowledge - when it's knowledge for knowledge's sake, anyway - is the worst of all. The least excusable, certainly ...
I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while - just once in a while - there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! — J.D. Salinger

My favourite riposte to a heckle is to say, 'Excuse me, I'm trying to work here. How would you like it if I stood yelling down the alley while you're giving blow jobs to transsexuals?' — Paul Merton

Often, simply knowing the answer is the largest hurdle to overcome when formulating a proof. — Clifford A. Pickover

The problems that we have in Jamaica are not fundamentally economical but mental, if we changed the way we saw the world then many of us would be better off. Our failures and pitfalls are not because of what others did not do for us but stems from what we are culturally as a people unwilling to do for ourselves. We are a people shackled by our own perceptions.
We are much too given to pessimism, believing that the obeah man oil can kill you too earnestly than how we embrace the anointment of the Pastor's Olive Oil. I guess evil to us is such a strong, pervasive muse. — Crystal Evans

In order to stay out of trouble I worked in industry. You can't even do that nowadays; there were all those factories. — Luis J. Rodriguez

I knew the moment I held you in the theater, that you were the reason for everything. Every single turn my life has made led me to you. Were I not the man I am, the agency would never have approached me and I would not have found you, my soul mate. In fact, you are so like me, it is nearly frightening, yet you continue to surprise and astound me. — Sylvia Day