Deign'd Quotes

#1. Pity! Religion has so seldom found
A skilful guide into poetic ground!
The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray
And every muse attend her in her way.

William Cowper

#2. But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put
To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.

William Cowper

#3. Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

John Derbyshire

#4. My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

Jared Harris

#5. I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

Garth Brooks

#6. For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men
delighted, and with frequent intercourse
thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

John Milton

#7. Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

John Green

#8. Don't let anyone tell you you can't do something, because you can!

Greg Plitt

#9. Follow what you love! ... Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.

Georgie Anne Geyer

#10. I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

St Patrick

#11. The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

Larry Gelbart

#12. Every day is a chance to start over. Any day can be bad, surely, but any day can be good, can be great, and that promise, that potential, is a beautiful thing indeed.

R.A. Salvatore

#13. Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

Horace

#14. Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain,
To prove that demon pox warps the brain.
So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain
That the pox-ridden worm was slain:
For to believe in me, you all must deign.

Cassandra Clare

#15. I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

Allyson Felix

#16. But you never deign to look at yourself or listen to yourself. So you have no reason to claim credit from anyone for those attentions, since you showed them not because you wanted someone else's company but because you could not bearyour own.

Seneca.

#17. As long as you are following God's will, friend Kline. But even God sometimes becomes impatient. You know the story of Jonah, friend Kline? How many whales do you suppose God will deign send to swallow you? When does God run out of whales?

Brian Evenson

#18. Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas

#19. Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

Roland Barthes

#20. Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.

Michelle Obama

#21. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.

Thomas More

#22. Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#23. I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves.

Corey Taylor

#24. A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.

Frederic Morton

#25. Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

Rod Stewart

#26. Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.

Leigh Bardugo

#27. May my life someday be so limpid that the Muses will deign to mirror themselves in it and that we can see the reflections of their smiles and their dances skimming across its surface.

Marcel Proust

#28. A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

Emile M. Cioran

#29. Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

Plato

#30. I spent that many years thinking I was alone. Then you prance into my life, nearly giving me a paroxysm, and now you deign to tell me there are more.

Rachel Hartman

#31. I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

Arnold Palmer

#32. Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still rather confused by it.

Sienna Guillory

#33. I maintain my conviction that there are NO pyramids at Visoko, Bosnia.
Rather, all the so-called pyramids are the result of natural geological processes
and phenomena that are currently being 'excavated' (i.e., modified) to look
like pyramids.

Robert M. Schoch

#34. So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.

Ali Smith

#35. Diane St. John had once said he looked as if he would speak in poetry, should he ever deign to speak at all.

Madeline Hunter

#36. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

Samuel Johnson