Mortifies Quotes

#1. The ascetic, for the greater glory of God, degrades and mortifies the flesh; Judas did the same with the spirit. He renounced honor, good, peace, the Kingdom of Heaven, as others, less heroically, renounced pleasure.

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.

Francois Fenelon

#3. Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

Alexander Pope

#4. But Sunday morning, things change. When we wake up, St. Clair stretches and accidentally smacks my boobs. Which not only hurts but also mortifies us both equally.

Stephanie Perkins

#5. If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. You must not suspect me. It mortifies me. I assure you that I have now learnt to enjoy his conversation as an agreeable and sensible young man, without having a wish beyond it. I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection.

Jane Austen

#7. So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

Henry Vaughan

#8. Because you can't kiss your way out of prison and I knew that for sure. For dead sure.

Elliott Chaze

#9. Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#10. I'm a very serious person.

Tom Ford

#11. There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

Russell Simmons

#12. VC might as well have stood for Velveeta cheese, for all I knew.

Anonymous

#13. Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

Richard Owen

#14. Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this ...

Alice Duer Miller

#15. Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Clay Shirky

#16. The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.

Samuel Alito