Anticlimactical Quotes & Sayings

I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self. — Bell Hooks

For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state. — Noam Chomsky

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people. — Desmond Tutu

She knows they mean no harm by it, but come on! No seven-year-old who has seen films about the Italian Mafia wants to be "sorted" by her family. — Fredrik Backman

One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know. — Karen Mills

Decisions, intentions, efforts, goals, willpower, etc., are causal states of the brain, leading to specific behaviors, and behaviors lead to outcomes in the world. Human choice, therefore, is as important as fanciers of free will believe. But the next choice you make will come out of the darkness of prior causes that you, the conscious witness of your experience, did not bring into being. — Sam Harris

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. — Owen Feltham

It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim. — Duop Chak Wuol