Importunity Quotes

#1. You can create opportunity out of importunity.You can create prosperity out of adversity.U can create something out of nothing

Ikechukwu Joseph

#2. In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.

Beryl Markham

#3. True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

Hosea Ballou

#4. Like love, mourning affects the world - and the worldly - with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.

Roland Barthes

#5. Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. All sin was now accumulated in one place - in him. Divinity

Gene Edwards

#7. In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Janine Di Giovanni

#8. Revenge is never a straight line.

Hattori Hanzo

#9. Life is chemistry, not biology.

Joey Lawsin

#10. Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.

Steven Spielberg

#11. If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, the AIDS virus would not be able to drift across the room through the air and infect the healthy person.

Richard Preston

#12. Gift ain't what you take by effort,
as swag ain't what you worthy have.

Toba Beta

#13. I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians.

Kerry Greenwood

#14. Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Tertullian

#15. At the Centers for Disease Control, I rose up fairly quickly into management positions. The first team I led there included many people who had been my supervisors in previous roles or were more senior than I was. So it was kind of a daunting challenge.

Helene D. Gayle

#16. Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself.

Rainer Maria Rilke