Descendants Incorrect Quotes

Passengers were crushed by descending boats. Swimmers were struck by chairs, boxes, potted plants, and other debris falling from the decks high above. And then there were those most ill-starred of passengers, who had put on their life preservers incorrectly and found themselves floating with their heads submerged, legs up, as in some devil’s comedy.

Not only was the doctrine of giants descending from rebellious angels a doctrine of antiquity, but also this belief was upheld by Christianity until the modern era. All such fantastic and or politically incorrect doctrines have been neatly tucked away in theological vaults, so they will not see the light of day again in our so-called season of tolerance and enlightenment.

I could never quite recognize myself in [Kanner's] version of autism, or in the current clinical versions that are descended from it. That’s because they are describing autism from the outside, as a set of symptoms or deficits, a set of distinct ways of failing to be normal. Autism from the inside, as a way of experiencing and navigating and making sense of the world, autism as a particular way of being–that I’ve known all my life; that I have no trouble owning. But generally, when you say the word ‘autism’ to people, what they think you have told them is that you have sat the Normality Exam and failed–and you have, multiple times, every time you entered a room or occupied it incorrectly; every time you dressed and groomed yourself incorrectly; every time you held your female body or moved it incorrectly, or spoke incorrectly or laughed incorrectly or did the wrong thing with your face. The shame, the sting of all those moments isn’t lessened by describing them in clinical terms; they just acquire a medical smell. Psychologists and psychiatrists sometimes like to argue that their language is value-neutral, but I don’t believe that language which people use to describe other people could ever be.

Kesgrave, however, was not finished discussing Mr. Fairbrother’s leg—or, rather, the brutal way he had been exposed to it without notice. Naturally, Bea scoffed at the notion that he had not been warned, as the situation itself had made the expectation apparent to anyone with an awareness of logic. “If you choose to cultivate a healthy disregard for reason, then that is your decision and I cannot see how I am to be held responsible.” As the Duke of Kesgrave considered himself to be among the most rational men in the kingdom, if not the most, he took great exception to this charge, and while his carriage rambled along Fenchurch toward the Particular, he explicated in detail all the ways her assumption was incorrect. Delightedly, she refuted each one, sometimes descending into illogic just to provoke his pique, and by the time they arrived at the theater, Kesgrave was resigned to inspecting all gangrenous limbs as a condition of their marriage.

A young girl named Amelia Rose Earhart was told, incorrectly, by her parents that she was descended from Amelia Earhart. She later became an accomplished pilot in her own right.