Anomia Board Quotes & Sayings

Those trying moments teach us to desire greatness in ourselves and wider humanity. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

this has been a birthday best forgotten."
"Most birthdays are, milord," his man said agreeably — Mary Balogh

Your parents were fighting machines and self-pitying machines. Your mother was programmed to bawl out your father for being a defective moneymaking machine, and your father was programmed to bawl out your mother for being a defective housekeeping machine. They were programmed to bawl each other out for being defective loving machines. Then your father was programmed to stomp out of the house and slam the door. This automatically turned your mother into a weeping machine. And your father would go down to the tavern where he would get drunk with some other drinking machines. Then all the drinking machines would go to a whorehouse and rent fucking machines. And then your father would drag himself home to become an apologizing machine. And your mother would become a very slow forgiving machine. — Kurt Vonnegut

Because that's how intelligent people conduct themselves. They allow for each other's differences. — Ann Rinaldi

Nobody could lead a nation without providing snacks. — Toba Beta

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer. — John Calvin

I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

What's in that pipe that he's smoking? — Arlo Guthrie

It is possible for political forces to agree. — King Felipe VI

I knew the door I wanted. I knocked. — V.S. Naipaul

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department. — Walter Lippmann

I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it. — Taylor Swift

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. — G.K. Chesterton

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime. — Confucius

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters. — Ramana Maharshi