Top 29 Consents Quotes
#1. There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
Simone De Beauvoir
#3. A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It "consents," so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree
Thomas Merton
#4. As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.
Victor Hugo
#5. O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
William Shakespeare
#6. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore. But at least he who consents to his own return and to the return of all things, who becomes an echo and an exalted echo, participates in the
divinity of the world.
Albert Camus
#7. A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses them against herself.
Sidney Abbott
#8. There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.
Mark Doty
#10. Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.
Rebecca West
#11. I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.
Shelley Winters
#12. He who says A must say B too; and he who consents the first time must also the second.
Jacob Grimm
#13. He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?
Alexis De Tocqueville
#14. I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony.
George Gordon Byron
#15. How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
Norman Douglas
#16. You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
Orison Swett Marden
#17. The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.
Jonathan Edwards
#18. Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny.
Nadia Janice Brown
#19. You're 60
But honestly it doesn't show
Mind you, you reached the age of consent
About 50,000 consents ago!
John Walter Bratton
#20. Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion.
Erich Fromm
#21. Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
Simone Weil
#22. When God says to us, " Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you,"He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#23. If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#24. Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.
Simone Weil
#25. Digital India' is not an elite concept anymore. We have to use this idea to revolutionize health and education in India.
Narendra Modi
#26. I didn't know until then that rage had a taste and it tasted like your own blood.
Rick Yancey
#27. I'm a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer?
Natasha Lyonne
#28. I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.
Saoirse Ronan
#29. It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
Ansel Elgort
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