Forfeited Quotes

#1. Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson. You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

Jefferson Davis

#4. Sluts don't have a choice, darling. And you've forfeited yours.

Sara Craven

#5. I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

Preston Brooks

#6. FUTURE YOUNG LOVERS AFFAIR WILL BE ALLOWED IF COURT AFFIDAVIT WED KNOT OKED BY THEIR PARENTS&RELATIVES.FAILING ALL SELF OWN SOCIAL RIGHTS FORFEITED TO KEEP THEM ALOOF FOREVER.

Various

#7. You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

Dannah Gresh

#8. Night of limitless possibility expired, of a life forfeited, of a foreclosed

Joshua Ferris

#9. In the stands, the audience was divided between booing and cheering. Half of them were upset that the read team had forfeited the race, but the other half were impressed to see a manticore punched.

Lou Anders

#10. [the abject] is simply a frontier, a repulsive gift that the Other, having become alter ego, drops so that the "I" does not disappear in it but finds, in that sublime alienation, a forfeited existence.

Julia Kristeva

#11. Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

Terence McKenna

#12. Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

Patrick White

#13. Those who choose to live without God will one day find that they have forfeited their likeness to him.

N. T. Wright

#14. We've been playing chess with this iPhone app. He hasn't made a move in so long our last game got forfeited. Ten days, or something like that."
"You two play chess on your phones?" Ty asked.
"Yeah." Zane shrugged.

Abigail Roux

#15. I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events, or who have a decent expectation of anonymity, or who are such appalling public shits that they have forfeited their right to bitch.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

Saint Augustine

#17. Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.

Jeremy Seabrook

#18. If you go into a store, with a gun, and rob it, you have forfeited your right to not get shot

Joe Deters

#19. Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

Margaret Chase Smith

#20. When a man has forfeited fellowship at the feet of the cross, he has forfeited all.

Seyi Ayoola

#21. He's carried dead men, felt the weight of their forfeited hopes. He will do what needs to be done.

Eddie Joyce

#22. Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.

Lisa Bevere

#23. Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.

Vigen Guroian

#24. Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

Thomas S. Monson

#25. Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.

Steven Furtick

#26. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

John Tillotson

#27. After sealing the door, Alqash went to the river to cleanse the blood from his hands and the dagger, and also to wash his hands of the faith that he had forfeited in exchange for short-lived riches.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#28. You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29. Annamaria insists that mere hours earlier, I saved entire cities, sparing many hundreds of thousands from nuclear terrorism. Even if that is most likely true, I feel as though, in the process, I have forfeited a piece of my soul.

Dean Koontz

#30. There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

Conrad Black

#31. Knowing that salvation is God's work alone should also free us from fear. We no longer have to fear that everything is riding on what we say - that we might miss that "one" opportunity to speak into our children's lives and have their eternal salvation forfeited.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#32. Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

Oswald J. Smith

#33. We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.

Martin Luther

#34. Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

Frank Murphy

#35. The truth was withheld only because so much else had to be forfeited.

Phillip Margulies

#36. Because they have shamefully trampled underfoot the grace of God, they have forfeited all rights to compassion.

Daniel I. Block

#37. In an era that exalts individual autonomy above all other values, the state as a practical matter has long since forfeited its authority to command citizens to defend the nation.

Andrew J. Bacevich

#38. Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

Margaret Chase Smith

#39. If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of the finite.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#40. Knowing God is a matter of grace. It is a relationship in which the initiative throughout is with God - as it must be, since God is so completely above us and we have so completely forfeited all claim on his favor by our sins.

J.I. Packer

#41. It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

Agnes Repplier

#42. God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

Tullian Tchividjian

#43. He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.

Jane Austen

#44. I knew I was too late - and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.

Stephenie Meyer

#45. The sinner . . . while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God."[

Gregory A. Boyd

#46. We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we've ignored the God who says that the 'possible' is never bound by the 'probable,' and instead we've dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the 'possible' is anything but 'probable.

Craig D. Lounsbrough