Quotes for All
As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say \”The Summer\” than \”the Autumn,\” lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved – So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The … Read more
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. Edward Abbey
Don’t forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use. Friedrich Engels
The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness. Francois de la Noue
The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending ruffle of pop’s hair while handing it a lollipop. An act of beaming condescension whose transparent message is: This one guy, and just this one guy, he’s so good, he transcends his trivial … Read more
Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront. Claude Debussy
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God. Chuck Baldwin
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . … Read more
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Carlos Castaneda
If you’re just grinding up hamburger at McDonald’s, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You’re not really honoring the life. Bryan Fuller