Top 49 Quotes About Chimera
#1. In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
R.C. Sproul
#2. I will rejoice in the multifariousness of nature and leave the chimera of certainty to politicians and preachers.
Stephen Jay Gould
#3. He wanted you dead, now he doesn't, I don't know why. Chimera's crazy, he doesn't need a reason to change his mind.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#4. My opinion - nay more, my conviction- is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera ; and it would be impossible for you to contradict
me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.
Louis Pasteur
#5. What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster ... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
Blaise Pascal
#6. You may think just a window
But you overtook my soul.
You are not just a whisper,
You are louder than my soul.
(from poem Chimera)
Deepa Bajaj
#7. One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum.
Hal Duncan
#9. I asked "What do you even do with a chimera?"
"What wouldn't you do with a chimera?" Jeff asked. "They're like the Swiss Army knife of animals.
Chloe Neill
#10. Without democracy freedom is a chimera
Octavio Paz
#11. I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
Sarah Hall
#12. It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time
Michel Foucault
#13. Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
John Donne
#15. Clavain was looking at a hyperpig: a genetic chimera of pig and human.
Alastair Reynolds
#16. To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
Marc Chagall
#17. Do you know what most people have from their grandmother? A tea set. Or a quilt." Curran smiled. "If your family had a quilt, it would be made out of chimera skin and stuffed with feathers from dead angels.
Ilona Andrews
#18. If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.
Andrew Bacevich
#19. No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.
Cesare Beccaria
#20. life itself is anything beyond a heartless little chimera- it is as real in its weariness and bitter heartache
Miles Franklin
#21. What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.
Blaise Pascal
#22. Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?
Sophie Swetchine
#23. Justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
Carson McCullers
#24. One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
Janos Bolyai
#25. Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.
Vladimir Nabokov
#26. Secrets, however long they are kept, usually still manage to be brought to light. The best you can hope for is that you'll be in control of when a secret gets out, not if it does."
-Melody in CHIMERA-
Vaun Murphrey
#27. Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.
Mason Cooley
#28. Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
Will Self
#29. If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
Denis Diderot
#30. Careful, human." Grimalkin appeared on the corner of the stage, overshadowed by the dead chimera. "Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.
Julie Kagawa
#31. The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
Quintilian
#32. Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.
Germaine Greer
#33. There are days I long to disappear in the wild, go back to the predator life I was meant to have. Kill the prey or be killed: it's in my genes.
A chimera, that's what I am. And this is my story.
E.E. Giorgi
#34. If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
Jasper Fforde
#36. Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.
Karl Kraus
#37. Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.
Cynthia Ozick
#38. For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.
Wyndham Lewis
#39. Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.
Alex Tabarrok
#42. Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
Michel Foucault
#43. I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#44. I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#46. I'm so passionate about my writing, there's page-spunk pouring out of my fingertips.
Hertzan Chimera
#47. Every parasite needs a host," Jay said.
"Every Queen needs an empire," McLoughlin said.
Nathan M. Farrugia
#48. All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#49. The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.
Hertzan Chimera
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