"Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront,……" — Gregory Maguire

More Affront Quotes

This quote is filed under Affront Quotes, one of 59 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition… — Soren Kierkegaard
• The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic… — Richard Dawkins
• If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by… — Pope John Paul II
• Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his… — Mark Twain
• It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets. — Albert Einstein
• Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. — Edward Abbey
• I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just,… — Thom Yorke
• Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be… — Ian Fleming
• These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity. — Silvio Berlusconi
• Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner. — Mark Twain
• Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from… — Chuck Baldwin

See all 59 Affront Quotes »