Avowal Quotes

#1. I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

Jane Austen

#2. There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

Napoleon Hill

#3. Nothingness is a sigh of eternity, a casual avowal of the infinite

Edmond Jabes

#4. The one whose 'alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)' are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization).

Dada Bhagwan

#5. Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.

Charles Lyell

#6. An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Thucydides

#7. Has he made an avowal of his love?'
'No,' Anna said. 'He doesn't need to. I know it, just the same.

Eleanor Catton

#8. Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.

Mary McCarthy

#9. Two days she watched them, seeing them refuse all food or comfort and seeking each other as blind men seek, wretched apart and together more wretched still, for then they trembled each for the first avowal.

Joseph Bedier

#10. Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Victor Hugo

#11. Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious.

Wilhelm Reich

#12. Arafat was a barrier to peace.

Chuck Schumer

#13. Yes, well we're all clean as whistles my darling until men like him come along and dirty us right up

Samantha Towle

#14. I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.

Ayrton Senna

#15. The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. By its durability this settlement proved that conservative liberty is an oxymoron, not a contradiction in terms.

Timothy C.W. Blanning

#17. I folded my arms. "I don't usually do stakeouts."
"I thought it might be a nice change of pace for you. All that knocking down of doors and burning down of buildings must get tiring."
"I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.

Jim Butcher

#18. Welcome home. Now leave me alone.

Trish Doller

#19. This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

Thomas Hardy

#20. I was incapable of producing
anything coherent at the moment so
rather than throwing out some witty
banter in response I said something like
"Ohgaahaad" instead. Feel free to quote
me.

N.M. Silber

#21. I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

Mikhail Prokhorov

#22. Sometimes, when we least expect it, we catch a glimpse of someone, a face, perhaps only a smile, and our heart latches on and will not let go. It may not be love at first, but soon and for always.

Regan Walker

#23. Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ...
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained ...

Mehek Bassi

#24. Once you have gone first class, everything else is coach.

Jeffrey Fry

#25. I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

Eli Broad