Disavowing Quotes

#1. If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do," said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

Roxane Gay

#3. When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Sigmund Freud

#4. When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

John Updike

#5. Without this original, pre-political, and pre-social community, no common project could ever come to exist. For, no project of this kind can be formed independently from its rootedness in the organic structure of desire and action.

Michel Henry

#6. I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.

Conor McGregor

#7. I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.

Terrell Owens

#8. I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

Valerie Bertinelli

#9. I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

Hans Christian Andersen