Antistatism Quotes & Sayings

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car. — Bruce Springsteen

[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety. — Edward Gibbon

Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it. — Catherine Of Genoa

What exists in this heart is not imaginary. This hand would not grasp air in trying to hold you, nor this eye blind itself in searching for you in vain. — Chrissy Moon

And anyway, the anticipation was always worse than the thing itself - the anticipation and the memory, of course. And the anticipation of the memory was maybe the worst part of all. — Jennifer DuBois

I keep looking for ultimate answers, but maybe there aren't any or maybe I'm not looking in the right places, because in the section marked ANSWERS in the back of my geometry book, there's only a bunch of numbers, and all I can find to stare at in the refrigerator is five carrots and a jar of no-fat mayonnaise. — Rachel Vail

It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It is hard to imitate a people whose existence appears, mainly, to be made tolerable by their bottomless gratitude that they are not, thank heaven, you. — James A. Baldwin

There's hardly anybody who doesn't hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn't hate. — Jonathan Franzen

Show me how you pleasure yourself. — E.L. James

The 'art of tea' is a spiritual force for us to share. — Alexandra Stoddard

You all right'?" he said gruffly.
"Yeah," said Harry,
"No yer'he not," said Hagrid. "'Course yeh're not. But yeh will be. — J.K. Rowling

The biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power . It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism , to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel ), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of " anarchism " (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century). — Jacques Ellul

No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary! — Mehmet Murat Ildan