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Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the welcomes, and loves and raptures of those who left us with tearful farewells, and with dying promises that they would wait to welcomes us when we should arrive. And so they do. Not sorrowfully, not anxiously, but lovingly, they wait to bid us welcome.
randolph sinks foster— P. 305. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
My proof that homosexuality is not a choice? A question for my straight male readers: Is there anything I could do or say or write that would convince you to willingly, happily, eagerly, anxiously, deliriously, lustfully put my dick in your mouth and leave it there until I had an orgasm? I rest my case.
dan savage— p. 79 (Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2002))
'Fan her head!'the Red Queen anxiously interrupted. 'She'll be feverish after so much thinking.'
Lewis Carroll— 1871 Through the Looking-Glass, Ch.9, 'Queen Alice'.
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
bahá'u'lláh— Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
kenyon, lloyd, 1st baron kenyon— Turtle v. Hartwell (1795), 6 T. R. 429.
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
— Lord Kenyon, C.J., Turtle v. Hartwell (1795), 6 T. R. 429.
Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
— Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 213
I have always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
bertrand russell— Quoted in Alan Wood Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Skeptic: A Biography, Vol. 2 (1958), p. 233.
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy – a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence.
charles krauthammer— Column, December 30, 2011, "Are we alone in the universe?" at jewishworldreview.com.
