Aversation Quotes

#1. For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

Francis Bacon

#2. The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.

Jim Hightower

#3. If you don't consciously design and choose your affirmations you are susceptible to repeating and reliving the fears, insecurities, and limitations of your past.

Hal Elrod

#4. So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

Clive Barker

#5. Make the depths of the stillness as your teacher, and then it will make you the teacher of the depths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

Daniella Monet

#7. The assumption of 'rights' is the cancer of privilege.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.

Terry Tempest Williams

#9. Oh, Grandmother, what terribly big teeth you have!

Marissa Meyer

#10. Knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

Thomas Aquinas

#11. Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

Clarice Lispector

#12. Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.

James Langevin

#13. We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

E. Stanley Jones

#14. You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said.

William Goldman

#15. Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And people don't always mention this part of directing, but it's also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.

Julie Delpy

#16. I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

Dorothy L. Sayers