Disobliging Quotes

#1. There are all sorts of people who will say disobliging things about me. I don't mind that. I would rather people said, 'This is a man that sticks to his principles, not a man who's worried about popularity.'

Michael Gove

#2. Real life is disobliging. People like to think, or feel, in black and white. Having to assess the relative values of all those intermediate greys is tiresome and perplexing.

Colin Watson

#3. It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

J.K. Rowling

#4. I loved you
because
it was easier
than
loving myself.

Nayyirah Waheed

#5. Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice.

James Lee Burke

#6. One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

Thomas S. Monson

#7. Once through this ruined city did I pass
I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked
'What knowest thou of this wilderness?'
It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words:
'Alas, Alas!

Khushwant Singh

#8. I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.

Clayton Christensen

#9. The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

Roman Payne

#10. I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

Marian Keyes

#11. I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions ...

Elizabeth Inchbald

#12. When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.

Mark Helprin