Outworn Quotes

#1. When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

Erik Erikson

#2. The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#3. God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

Kenneth Rand

#4. In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn.

Louise Hay

#5. Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

William Shakespeare

#6. In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#7. The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#8. The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.

John B. S. Haldane

#9. The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

Steven Pressfield

#10. Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine
You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine.
The throne that I won by blood and sweat , by Crom, I will not sell
For promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell!

Robert E. Howard

#11. Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.

Eric Gill

#12. She felt vaguely upset and unsettled. She was suddenly tired of outworn dreams. And in the garden the petals of the last red rose were scattered by a sudden little wind. Summer was over
it was Autumn.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

#14. Thou art My light and My light shall never be extinguished; why dost thou dread extinction? Thou art My glory and My glory shall fadeth not; thou art My robe and My robe shall never be outworn.

Baha'u'llah

#15. [We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#16. The conservative has little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires.

Freeman Dyson

#17. You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.

Chief White Eagle

#18. Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.

Olaf Stapledon

#19. I think ... that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals ...

Corliss Lamont

#20. But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

William Blake

#21. The thing is this: Even if the husband leaves her in this awful craven way, she will still have to count it as a miracle, all of those happy years she spent with him. "It was a fucking miracle that I found him," she tells the philosopher.

Jenny Offill

#22. Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Chinua Achebe

#23. I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.

Nick Offerman

#24. All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

Rosellen Brown

#25. Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

James Spithill

#26. Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.

Evgeny Morozov

#27. One day I fell off a toilet and a stool.

Dan Adams

#28. I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm always learning as a composer, looking to create new flavors and colors.

Lior Ron

#29. I have had a great time as president.

Theodore Roosevelt

#30. I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

Charles Kennedy

#31. I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.

Jody Watley

#32. What's fair and what's true often bear no resemblance to each other.

Garon Whited