Quotes & Sayings About The Unmentionable Times In Anthem

If I'd been asked to make a list of what I could do without, I'd never have managed it. But by putting the thought in my head that really none of it's important, I find myself wondering if I can't just shed all my things, my stuff, like an old skin. Maybe — J.P. Delaney

Well, I drank enough to sustain a small Spanish village, I haven't had an orgasm in a thousand years, and I will probably die old and alone in a beautifully designed apartment with all of Clive's illegitimate children swarming around me ... How do you think I feel? — Alice Clayton

By the time I get home, I will have grimaced through 26 sets of traffic lights and acquired the following: a hefty wood-carving of a horse; a censored girlie calendar; an inflatable Power Ranger; a chess set; nine boiled sweets; two slices of salted pineapple; a fake Rolex; three kretek cigarettes and a blowpipe. — Derek Bacon

Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so that I can govern and rescue the Church from her present difficulties, but so that I can suffer something for the Church, and in that way it will be clear that he, and no other, is her guide and saviour — Pope Paul VI

You may not get what you desire, but you will get what you deeply love. — Debasish Mridha

There is no time to fail. — Ashley Bryan

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. — John Dryden

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there's nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor. — China Mieville

The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others. — Philip Yancey

Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration. — Chris Adrian

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded. — Scott Thompson

The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously. — Russ Feingold

Today we are in a situation in which the free movement of people can have enormous, monumental dimensions, and I don't think that any country in Western Europe or in America can any longer adopt the idea of totally free movement of people. I t would simply overwhelm their social facilities, their societies and create migratory dynamics on the scales of tens and tens of millions of people. That simply is not practical. — Zbigniew Brzezinski