Meekly Quotes

#1. Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

John Stossel

#2. Damn ye, woman! Will ye never do as you're told?" "Probably not," I said meekly.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.

Hyman Rickover

#4. She would not go meekly to that fate. If the rest of her life was meant to be miserable and forlorn, at least she could choose the path that would take her there.

Victoria Alexander

#5. Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.

Maureen Corrigan

#6. They'd taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs would finally have enough, finally have reason to leave them be. But Tom knew better.

S.J. Kincaid

#7. Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

Terry Eagleton

#9. I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime..

Bobby Sands

#10. Chloe nodded meekly. I'd never seen her so demure.
"What's the matter with you?" I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside.
"She's royalty!"
"And a vampire, remember?"
"Oh yeah." Chloe paused. "Nope, princess trumps vampire."
"Does not."
"So does.

Alyxandra Harvey

#11. To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please
respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#12. The parents were too American, too aware of the rights granted them by their Constitution to accept injustices meekly. They could not be bulldozed and exploited as could the immigrants and the second-generation Americans.

Betty Smith

#13. Connor and Cameron look wide-eyed at the carnage. Cameron slowed the speedboat down to a crawl. She and Connor looked at Jason.
"Oops," Jason said meekly. Nothing else seemed appropriate.
"Oops?" Connor shouted. "You blew up half the town.

Mark A. Cooper

#14. It is not in the nature of man to bear the cross, to love the cross, to keep under the body and to bring it into subjection, to fly from honours, to bear reproaches meekly, to despise self and desire to be despised, to bear all adversities and losses, and to desire no prosperity in this world.

Thomas A Kempis

#15. You don't understand," she said meekly. "Really? Okay, you're a special case then, are you? Unlike all the others in abusive relationships, your man really does love you. He's a good man deep down. Tells you he'll change.

Steve McHugh

#16. When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.

Megan Whalen Turner

#17. I didn't expect to see you, Mr. Fitzgerald," she said, meekly.
A grin slunk across his face. "No, I imagine you were expecting to get to castrate Connor.

Katie Ashley

#18. Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!
Sir Beldevere: A newt?
Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better.
Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!

Graham Chapman

#19. You wired the kid," Truemann said meekly to no one in particular.
"Why not? No crime. You're the FBI, remember. You boys run more wire than AT&T."[Reggie Love]

John Grisham

#20. We must wait for God, long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and lightning, in the cold and the dark. Wait, and He will come. He never comes to those who do not wait.

Frederick William Faber

#21. Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

John Jakes

#22. Two days wrong!" sighed the Hatter. "I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!" he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. "It was the best butter," the March Hare meekly replied.

Lewis Carroll

#23. Rose said: 'Some people would be needing their spare glasses, or that blue cardigan. You need a book. Of course.'
'A deficiency?'said Charlotte meekly.
'Not at all. The need defines you, that's all.

Penelope Lively

#24. If Lady Brentmor told the prime minister to jump off a bridge," Fiona had once remarked, "Wellington would meekly ask, 'Which one?

Loretta Chase

#25. It's about being proactive about creating a life you love instead of meekly living the one you think you're stuck with. Give yourself the gift of a joyous life while you're still among the living.

Jen Sincero

#26. They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spake with us on earth no more!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#27. Floor and keep the fire fed with wood. Dorothy went to work meekly, with her mind made up to work as hard as she

L. Frank Baum

#28. it's not we who control money, it's the money that controls us. When there's only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us.

Vivek Shanbhag

#29. We refuse unfair offers because people who meekly accepted unfair offers didn't survive in the Stone Age. Observations

Yuval Noah Harari

#30. Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

Malcolm Muggeridge