Quotes About Being Disowned

#1. Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its creators, it deserves to be seen as the purest incarnation yet of the ideology that gave it birth.

Naomi Klein

#2. Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.

Lynne Truss

#3. Beauty is where it is perceived. When I see the sun shinning on the woods across the pond, I think this side the richer which sees it.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#5. Identity. It's always God's first move. Before we do anything wrong and before we do anything right, God has named and claimed us as God's own.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#6. Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

Frances Beinecke

#7. Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,
and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,
and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to too many half-lettered persons.

Remy De Gourmont

#8. Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

Carl Rogers

#9. Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?

Joanna Garcia

#10. I'm very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years all right, but what ever is going on with me the moment I write is gonna work it's way into the piece.

Quentin Tarantino

#11. With the grin of one who mistakenly thinks he's a wit when he's only half a one.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Be yourself,
And take control of your own destiny.
There is nothing more disgraceful in life,
Than living someone else's life.

Mouloud Benzadi

#13. Our guts can really mislead us. Sometimes, what we think of as our gut is something else, like an outside influence. If you're going to buy an apartment and it smells of freshly baked bread, you're more likely to want to buy it.

Noreena Hertz

#14. Do you know how when you're moving really fast in a car, and you're looking at the road, you get sick, but if you look at the trees you're fine? She's my trees, man.

Rebecca Timberlake

#15. Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

Robert Breault

#16. If mere scandal could have destroyed the big Wall Street investment banks, they would have vanished long ago. This woman wasn't saying that Wall Street bankers were corrupt. She was saying that they were stupid.

Michael Lewis