Anticipointment Quotes & Sayings

Earth recedes ... Heav en opens before me. — Dwight L. Moody

In short, the greatest gift of relationship proves to be that as the result of encountering each other, we are obliged to grow larger than we had planned. — James Hollis

The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones. — Thomas Huxley

Perhaps we get, not what we deserve, but what we demand. — Emma Donoghue

If you can't do it, don't do it. — Karl Pilkington

And Kyle says, It's like when I'm with her, all the shit from my past doesn't even matter. Nothing does. I don't think about anything but her. — Jason Myers

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love. — Marya Mannes

All it takes is common sense to understand that the Rajapaksa administration has vandalised every layer of the country's resources to get rid of political obstacles while minimising the space available to facilitate the sharing of authentic political dissent. At the same time the opposition appears to be caged. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity. — Susan Sontag

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. — Christopher Lasch

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel. — Scott Bradfield