Besets Quotes

#1. The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

Georgia Harkness

#2. The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.

Chris Hedges

#3. I suffer from the usual difficulty that besets the higher commander - things can be ordered and started, but actual execution at the front has to be turned over to someone else.

Rick Atkinson

#4. But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

Friedrich Schiller

#5. His was an illness that besets the intellectual: the indefatigable will to mastery. Chronic and incurable, it afflicts those who lust after a world that makes sense.

Siri Hustvedt

#6. One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.

Bonar Law

#7. Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

William Osler

#8. This is the perennial danger which besets semiotics: what with man being preeminently the sign-using creature, and what with man using signs in everything that he does, semiotics runs the risk of being about everything and hence about nothing.

Walker Percy

#9. Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire,
I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished
outside me, it besets and consumes me inside,
and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#10. If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as impoverished as I have now found myself.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. The puzzle that besets me is best expressed by the following statements. a: None of what follows ever happened b: All of what follows is entirely true

Stephen Fry

#12. It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.

Peter Kropotkin

#13. In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world.

Orna Ross

#14. That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, I won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions of being bothered ... a person who, so far as self-knowledge is concerned, is just a moron.

Aldous Huxley

#15. To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.

Thomas Huxley

#16. It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man's refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.

Billy Graham

#17. When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

Dale Carnegie

#18. That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Amor Towles

#19. Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local organizations that ultimately deliver lots of service, your nonprofits, churches, humanitarian organizations. Those types of linkages get built up over time, in local communities.

Peter May

#20. There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes, it's what we do with them that's important

Jim Rohn

#21. Scarborough Demolishes Chris Christie

Anonymous

#22. Women at the top are the ones chosen to be there by men and not eliminated by women, a dual filter that excludes most witches: those with brilliance and originality and those capable of disturbing the status quo.

Heather Marsh

#23. The known world shrinks and vanishes, and the soul hurls itself into the uncharted distances of the unknown where everything is strange and yet familiar, and the language of music, of poets, and of dreams is spoken.

Hermann Hesse

#24. Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

Tracy McMillan