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  • Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

    Pain   Circles   People  
    Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
  • The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried

    Lying   Dark   Hands  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.125, Penguin
  • 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 anathema to what people say that America stands for.

    Men   America   People  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.

  • Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.

    Acting   Want   Directors  
    "The Good Shepherd - Matt Damon interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]

  • I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

    "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.
  • Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day.

    Country   Ambition   Mind  
    Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.237, Regnery Publishing
  • In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.

  • The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

    Fate   Ideas   Hysteria  
  • One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

    Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.
  • Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

    Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
  • A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.

    Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”
  • I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

  • The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think they were 'Mormons.'

    Jesus   Thinking   Wife  
  • The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

    Fate   Ideas   People  
    Source: pennpoliticalreview.org
  • The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.

    "Rounding Up The Week In Politics". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, wkms.org. March 6, 2016.
  • The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.

    Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.33
  • I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was desperate to get a job and couldn't, so I think it's anathema for me to turn down work if I think it's really good.

    Jobs   Thinking   Years  
    "Matt Damon - Exclusive Interview - The Bourne Supremacy". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. March 2, 2005.
  • Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

    Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.211, Simon and Schuster
  • The question of Israeli apartheid was anathema a decade ago. Now it's even talked about by top Israeli officials, who say - they differ on the timing: We say it's already there; they say that if we don't do something different, we're going to face apartheid.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

  • Let us join Paul and declare anathema upon anyone who loves not the Lord Jesus. (I Cor 16:22)

    Jesus   Scary   Lord  
  • If anyone says that the one Jesus Christ who is both true Son of God and true Son of man did not know the future or the day of the Last Judgment and that he could know only as much as the divinity, dwelling in him as in another, revealed to him, anathema sit.

    Jesus   Son   Men  
  • The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers US service members who might be captured by the enemy, and is anathema to the values Americans have held dear for generations.

    Hurt   War   America  
    "Above the rule of law" by Sidney Blumenthal, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2005.
  • If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the Church which is different from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.

  • If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that which has been handed down and preached in the holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church of God...let him be anathema.

  • "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.

    "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, May 1, 1990.
  • The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

    Hero   Race   Blood  
    "No Word for Time: The Way of the Algonquin People". Book by Evan T. Pritchard, 2001.
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