Anti Utopian Quotes

#1. TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

Bill McKibben

#2. Politicians and low profiles rarely went together.

Marshall Thornton

#3. In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside.I am a prodigy who knows the truth. I know exactly what I'm going to do.

Marie Lu

#4. When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

Stephen King

#5. Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

John Gray

#6. I keep my eyes closed as tightly as I can, but in my mind, everyone in the square looks like my father and they all have his voice. I hate you all. I imagine my hands at their throats, choking, silencing them, one by one.

Marie Lu

#7. All that I am my mother made me. - John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part ...

Charlotte Gray

#8. No, sir. I won't complain. Except when I move it sharp and sudden, my arm is real numb. It's the rest of me that's in misery."
"Where?"
"My backside and my privates. I'm stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.

Robert Newton Peck

#9. This level of operational and organisational perfection for a body that has a scourge as unpredictable as terrorism to deal with is nearly utopian, but it is what GATA must strive to reach, a pursuit that must be written in its DNA.

Ray Anyasi

#10. A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

Noam Chomsky

#11. Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

Erica Jong

#12. The evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#13. I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

Frederick Buechner

#14. With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore galore and all-too human characters make this unusual, fast-paced novella a must for fans who like their horror served blood-rare.

Kealan Patrick Burke

#15. Might have to go to London," she murmured. "Huh. Wouldn't it be a kick in the head if I really did have to be out of the country hunting a criminal mastermind when Mavis goes into labor?"
"I, my ass. That goes to we or I'll hurt you

J.D. Robb