Top 36 Consign Quotes
#1. I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will
a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul ... the bloodiest of mutilations.
Jim Fergus
#2. To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
Angela Carter
#3. Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
Samuel Butler
#4. Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#5. What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#6. The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition! Finally,
Herman Melville
#7. Bargain all you like. Consign yourself to the hangman if you must. The people don't give a fourpenny fuck.
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Hilary Mantel
#8. Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.
Alain De Botton
#9. I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Brigid Brophy
#10. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho
#11. This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
Tacitus
#12. How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find:
Samuel Johnson
#13. Jessica, do you want to consign me to a cheese-less future?
Christine Pope
#14. I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!
Frances Power Cobbe
#15. The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.
Raheel Farooq
#16. Logic, order, truth, reason, we consign them all to the oblivion of death," said one Surrealist manifesto. We must "cultivate the hatred of intelligence," said the leader of the Futurists, Filippo Marinetti, an artist hailed by Mussolini as the John the Baptist of Fascism.17
Leonard Peikoff
#17. I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.
Barack Obama
#18. You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.
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Angus Wilson
#19. what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about, we must consign to silence' (T,
A.C. Grayling
#20. That is the delusion of which I speak! You wish the joys of true love upon every milkmaid and stable boy in your land, and yet you consign yourself and another to lives of pure misery that you might possess a well-proportioned ballroom.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#22. The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.
Victoria Woodhull
#23. As she spoke, Isabel found herself thinking of the power of words. A single word, a phrase, a sentence or two could have such extraordinary power; could end a world, break a heart or, as in this case, consign another to moral purdah.
Alexander McCall Smith
#24. Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.
Simon Critchley
#25. Do not think that you will be able to succeed in your affairs by your own efforts, but only by the assistance of God; and on setting out, consign yourself to His care, believing that He will do that which will be best for you.
Francis De Sales
#26. The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you don't have budget constraints; you can cast it yourself.
Emilia Fox
#27. In the beauty of countless danseuse in my palace, I saw an endless suffering in the form of distorted and diseased figures as the absolute certainty towards which they were heading even as insects unwittingly consign themselves to the blazing flame.
Ajit Kumar Jha
#28. He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others
Elliot Perlman
#29. It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers
Trina Paulus
#30. Always can find someone who have more pain, more hurt than you. Always can find someone who need help. And you always have something to give. Even when you think you have nothing.
Julie Cantrell
#31. Most countries want to bring their people together and tear down physical, commercial and cultural barriers. Anyone who proposes separating them is out of line.
Ruben Aguilar
#32. It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.
G.K. Chesterton
#33. I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
Katey Sagal
#34. Feelings are never right or wrong," she said after a moment. "They just are.
Diane Chamberlain
#35. The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.
Austin Osman Spare
#36. I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.
Jared Harris
