Importune Quotes

#1. A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Anatole Broyard

#2. How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#3. Why should people importune the Lord about small trials and petty ailments, and at the same time neglect to ask His guidance on matters of love and marriage which make or mar one's life?

Nephi Anderson

#4. Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Thomas Gray

#5. Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.

Jean De La Fontaine

#6. When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
Importune me no more!

Elizabeth I

#7. You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

Martial

#8. But enough of phenomenology; it is nothing more than the solitary, endless monologue of consciousness, a hard-core autism that no real cat would ever importune.

Muriel Barbery

#9. If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, 'Because it was he; because it was I.' There is, beyond what I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and inevitable power that brought on this union.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay upon thy lips.

William Shakespeare

#12. Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

Audre Lorde

#14. Conception is a blessed event.
Fertilization is divine intervention.
The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter.
The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

Richard Rhodes

#16. I'd paralyze anyone who wanted to hurt me.

Toba Beta

#17. Before garden, vine or grape was in the world," writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.

Idries Shah

#18. The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

Jeff Bridges

#19. I've never been on a film when an entire cast signs up for the entire time.

Hugh Jackman