Anticipant Quotes & Sayings

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. — James Nasmyth

You could expect many things of God at night when the campfire burned before the tents. You could look through and beyond the veils of scarlet and see shadows of the world as God first made it and hear the voices of the beasts He put there. It was a world as old as Time, but as new as Creation's hour had left it.
In a sense it was formless. When the low stars shone over it and the moon clothed it in silver fog, it was the way the firmament must have been when the waters had gone and the night of the Fifth Day had fallen on creatures still bewildered by the wonder of their being. It was an empty world because no man had yet joined sticks to make a house or scratched the earth to make a road or embedded the transient symbols of his artifice in the clean horizon. But it was not a sterile world. It held the genesis of life and lay deep and anticipant under the sky. — Beryl Markham

Never allow adversity to define you. May you find hope and strength to graciously overcome the adversity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You are all perfectly correct in your implications that we would be safer if we stayed home in our rooms ... But we would also be duller, stupider, and, finally, sadder. If you want to avoid danger, don't get born. Once you are born, make something of it! — Chris Raschka

Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you. — Neill F. Marriott

His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before with blue eyes, but they had always been light blue. Will's were the color of the sky just on the edge of night. — Cassandra Clare

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one. — Janis Ian

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something. — Hugh Jackman

You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup. — Ben Okri

Every time you accept the claim that you can't change human nature or you have to accept the way the world is, you are accepting the foundations of the worldview that grounded the ancien regime. — Susan Neiman

And you haven't been betrayed yet, Nick. You don't know what that's like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another. — Brian Schmidt

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you. — Quentin Crisp

Thought with its emotional and sensational content, is not love. Thought — Jiddu Krishnamurti

On Chesil Beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have cared to know, that as she ran away from him, certain in her distress that she was about to lose him, she had never loved him more, or more hopelessly, and that the sound of his voice, would have been a deliverance, and she would have turned back. — Ian McEwan

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight — Laurie Nadel