Atonic Quotes & Sayings

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name. — Ben Aaronovitch

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be. — S.E. Hinton

Revolution? Change? What I really want, with all my heart, is for the atonic clouds to stop greyly lathering the sky. What I want is to see the blue emerge, a truth that is clear and sure because it is nothing and wants nothing. — Fernando Pessoa

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world. — Adam Schiff

Doubt was a debilitating, frightening thing. — Chloe Neill

A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra