Let us join Paul and declare anathema upon anyone who…

I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of…

— Martin Amis

Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to…

— V. S. Pritchett

The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema…

— Mike Pence

“Asking for help was anathema to me. I'd told Maria that. 'And how's that been working out for you so far?' she'd said. I…

— Gail Honeyman

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and,…

— Charlotte Bronte

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases,…

— P. L. Travers

The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

— Wole Soyinka

The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy,…

— Jedediah M. Grant

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

— Louise Bourgeois

“Education and science is an anathema for all religion.”

— Stefan Vucak

If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that…

— Pope Martin I

I defy anyone now to tell me about patriotism and what America stands for, while we've elected a man who ran on everything that's…

— Jumaane Williams

The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day,…

— Paul Tudor Jones

When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the…

— Mike Huckabee

Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole…

— David Attenborough