Top 27 Quotes About Anachronisms
#1. Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.
Garry Kasparov
#2. The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
Oscar Wilde
#3. The tendency of mechanical progress is to make your environment safe and soft; and yet you are striving to keep yourself brave and hard ... So in the last analysis the champion of progress is also the champion of anachronisms.
George Orwell
#5. The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.
George Orwell
#7. Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical Man. 'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.
H.G.Wells
#8. I found the book, Qur'an,] in spite of "the contradictions, the absurdities, the anachronisms", "rhapsody, without connection, without order, and without art.
Voltaire
#9. There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.
Roger Altman
#10. A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
Roman Jakobson
#11. Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.
Charles Schwab
#13. I believe in white knights, but the only knight in this story is me. No one saved me. I've fallen so far that I can't even see the way out anymore. I'm at the bottom of Hell and I found you.
H.M. Ward
#14. They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#15. She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared.
She would stop the blood.
She would hold him and stop his life from escaping.
She would hold life inside him and he wouldn't die
Michael Grant
#16. A raft or a scow, you know; and maybe you could hear a fiddle or a song coming over from one of them crafts. It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them,
Mark Twain
#17. My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out.
April Winchell
#18. The Present is the womb of the future.
A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly.
Look after the present and the future will look after itself.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
#19. The people who work with you as their manager will look to you as one of their sources of wisdom
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#20. People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.
[Afterword]
Michael Chabon
#21. I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.
Barack Obama
#22. One day instead the old woman said kind words to her and gave her an awning on a stick to keep rain off (there has been much rain in purgatorium)
Ali Smith
#23. We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response.
Chiang Kai-shek
#25. Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.
Ken Kesey
#26. Damn you, Sassenach!" his voice said, from a very great distance. His voice was choked with passion. "Dam you! I swear if ye die on me, I'll kill you!
Diana Gabaldon
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