Effigy Quotes

#1. In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

Andie MacDowell

#2. Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

Cat Stevens

#3. Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Jack Kemp

#4. Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved ... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#5. How I would like to believe in tenderness
The face of the effigy, gentled by candles,
Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes.

Sylvia Plath

#6. A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.

Paul Krugman

#7. resembling in his spectacles and nothing else (from the waist down the table concealed him; anyone entering the room would have taken him to be stark naked) a baroque effigy created out of colored cake dough by someone with a faintly nightmarish affinity for the perverse,

William Faulkner

#8. I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.

Richard DeVos

#9. and was now bending over the golden effigy of a bat, perhaps Zotz, the Underworld god.

Deborah Jackson

#10. By associating votive offerings with sacred images, the Catholic Church, it its wisdom, had left its formerly pagan flock a legitimate outlet for the inveterate impulse to associate oneself, or one's own effigy, with the Divine as expressed in the palpable form of the human image.

Aby Warburg

#11. Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Walter Savage Landor

#12. I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

#13. His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapor sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed. The craving to know what had become of him followed me everywhere.

Charlotte Bronte

#14. In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions

Emanuel Swedenborg

#15. I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts ... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .

William Westmoreland

#16. Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

Eugen Sandow

#17. I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.

Jean Dubuffet

#18. We must learn to love ourselves less and the earth more. This will not be an easy task for we live in the age of nonsense. Bombarded with thousands of messages each day that proclaim how to be loved instead of how to be loving, we have learned to love objects instead of processes.

Steve Van Matre

#19. A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her deepest identity, is a saint, a spiritually born child of God, a divine masterpiece, a child of light, a citizen of heaven.

Neil T. Anderson

#20. The feeling of the morning after the night before is not a sensation endured by the dissolute only: every morning, for every human being, is in some sort a morning after the night before...

Patrick Hamilton

#21. Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.

Charles Platt

#22. Never believe everything you read; all writers are liars, it's what we do.

Callie Press

#23. He did not like her pallor, her new expression, her faint smile, her voice, and soon afterwards he disliked her clothes, too, the low chair in which she was sitting; he disliked something in the past when he had almost married her.

Anonymous

#24. You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.

Michael Bassey

#25. You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.

Paula Deen

#26. Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

Mariella Frostrup

#27. Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers.

Nick Flynn

#28. One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

Darin Strauss

#29. What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

William Graham Sumner

#30. I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.

LaToya London

#31. The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.

Takuan Soho