Antigonish News Quotes & Sayings

If you're going to lie, at least be good at it. — Behdad Sami

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. — Henry James

We are a Faustian generation, my dear
we seek to know what we are maybe not designed (if we are designed) to be able to know. — A.S. Byatt

His principle can be quite simply stated: he refuses to die while he is still alive. He seeks to remind himself, by every electric shock to the intellect, that he is still a man alive, walking on two legs about the world. For this reason he fires bullets at his best friends; for this reason he arranges ladders and collapsible chimneys to steal his own property; for this reason he goes plodding around a whole planet to get back to his own home; and for this reason he has been in the habit of taking the woman whom he loved with a permanent loyalty, and leaving her about (so to speak) at schools, boarding-houses, and places of business, so that he might recover her again and again with a raid and a romantic elopement. He seriously sought by a perpetual recapture of his bride to keep alive the sense of her perpetual value, and the perils that should be run for her sake. — G.K. Chesterton

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. — Dee Dee Myers

It seemed to him a thousand times worse to stand there as the only one unmasked amid a host of masks, than suddenly to stand naked among those fully dressed. — Arthur Schnitzler

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre

To me thinking outside the box means; crossing disciplines and pulling in expertise and perspective from outside of the standard boundaries. — Dror Benshetrit

The love we deserve is not necessarily the love we accept... — Steven Aitchison

Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. — Richelle Mead

Jealousy is an evil which grows in the womb of ego and is nourished by selfishness and attachment. — Swami Rama

Even more beautiful than the land that we passed, or the months spent camping on the plains, was learning to live with uncertainty. — Rinker Buck

Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear? — Hanif Kureishi