Animadversions Quotes

#1. While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself.

Elias Lyman Magoon

#2. The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

David Berlinski

#4. Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

Elizabeth Edwards

#5. Before them an indifferent house, standing low, and hemmed in by the barns and buildings of a farm-yard.

Jane Austen

#6. Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse.

Jim Harrison

#7. Don't you know
That lovers make the rains,
Call forth the sun,
Re-route hurricanes,
And exorcise earthquakes for fun.

James Kavanaugh

#8. Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near.

Philip Yancey

#9. By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply.

Nichiren

#10. There was something soul-burningly about being on the brink of losing control, tumbling over into the unknown, and I wanted to fall and never resurface.
- Jennifer L. Armentrout

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. Awake to the spiritual realities of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita