Quotes About Annunciation

#1. Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

David Whyte

#2. Analysis should release an experience that grips us or falls upon us as from above, an experience that has substance and body such as those things which occurred to the ancients. If I were going to symbolize it I would choose the Annunciation. - Seminar 1925

C. G. Jung

#3. Above the altar is suspended the horrifically detailed model of a dying man, who, like the stained-glass version of his mother during The Annunciation, is wearing an expression too serene for such surprising circumstance. Jesus looks like he's thinking, Well, here I am, nailed to some wood.

Mark Crutchfield

#4. There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

Robert Gardner

#5. For the first time, I see her. Fucking Sophia. I don't see her as a means to an end - a potential way to take down the bastard who killed my uncle. I see her. I see her as a woman, and she is beautiful.

Callie Hart

#6. I was always influenced by language.

Helen Dunmore

#7. I mean, who does that? Who touches someone's hair and pronounces they have magic?"
"Darth Sullivan."
"Darth goddamned Sullivan.

Chloe Neill

#8. No man won a woman's heart by running away.

H.M. Ward

#9. I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

Romany Malco

#10. Witnessing the misadventures of supposedly enlightened adepts and their devotees can be depressing. But it can also be amusing.

Sam Harris

#11. Seriously, I fucking love your wife, man. She's awesome. Can I have her?

Kylie Scott

#12. You ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

Horace

#14. No, of love. It's the same currency. Everything starts with love. Hatred is just the other side of the coin.

Jo Nesbo

#15. (I'm a child of the wired generation, unlike some of the suits hereabouts who have their secretaries print everything out and dictate their replies for an audio-typist to send.)

Charles Stross