Exclaiming Quotes

#1. By exclaiming that "there are no absolute truths" the postmodern stance is also claiming that the statement it just made is an absolute truth - trying to have it both ways, rejecting absolutism with absolutism.

Gudjon Bergmann

#2. Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of our books, thumbing through it and exclaiming, Hey, listen to what this old guy had to say back in the twentieth century!

William Attwood

#3. She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational.

Jane Austen

#4. As he left to answer the call, she heard him exclaiming in wonderment on the rise. Rocks, Nash. Is that a river mare out there? Do you see her? Have you ever laid eyes on a more gorgeous creature?

Kristin Cashore

#5. Perhaps the most instructive experience is to see the way governments all over the world are exclaiming, What are we going to do about the United States?!

Eric Mann

#6. Turing exclaiming once, "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mundane brain, something like the president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company.

James Gleick

#7. A poor, deceived, and half-delirious girl, who, exclaiming that she was the most worthless thing alive or dead, attempted to cast herself into the fire amid all that wrecked and broken trumpery of the world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

Doris Lessing

#9. A coprophage calls for a plate, shits on it and eats the shit, exclaiming, Mmmm, that's my rich substance.

William S. Burroughs

#10. One day a man invited him into a richly furnished house, saying 'be careful not to spit on the floor.' Diogenes, who needed to spit, spat in his face, exclaiming that it was the only dirty place he could find where spitting was permitted.

Diogenes Laertius

#11. The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Carl Schurz

#12. I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

Robert Henri

#13. Women continue to reward bold moves made by men because of the confidence it displays.

Roosh V

#14. No "knack" of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.

Andrew Loomis

#15. Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

Mark Sundeen

#16. The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar ... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

#17. Everything I am familiar with is gone.

Marie Lu

#18. But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

Lawrence Durrell

#19. And sometimes she just wants to rage against the machine-even if she's not exactly sure where the machine is or how to properly rage at it.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. Compassionate people are boundaried people.

Brene Brown

#21. I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

Colum McCann

#22. Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!

Napoleon Bonaparte

#24. Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you in certain ways.

Martin Villeneuve

#25. Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#26. Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

Suzanne Collins