Quotes About Forfeiting

#1. every second I spend sitting around feeling distant from my true desires, avoiding the world and being afraid to engage it, is a second that I'm forfeiting the biggest gift of all: my time here in this life.

Mark Manson

#2. When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty ...

John Webster

#3. My veracity is dearer to me than my life," said the peasant; "nor would I purchase the one by forfeiting the other.

Horace Walpole

#4. I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you're forfeiting your humanity.

Woody Allen

#5. You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth.

Robin Jones Gunn

#6. No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as the opportunity comes to do all that in him lies for peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

Thomas F. Wilson

#8. High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#9. I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

Phil Jackson

#10. We live in a culture where the acknowledgment of wrong or the ownership of risk and failure is paramount to forfeiting the game.

Dan B. Allender

#11. You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

Dag Hammarskjold

#12. In the 1980s ... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.

James G. Watt

#13. Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write

John Milton

#14. A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

W. H. Auden

#15. Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

Dean Cain

#16. For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

Tea Obreht

#17. The question one asks of the young writer who wants to
know if he's got what it takes is this: "Is writing novels what
you want to do? Really want to do?"
If the young writer answers, "Yes," then all one can say is:
Do it. In fact, he will anyway.

John Gardner

#18. The truth is often one's best shield.

James Rollins

#19. Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.

Jean Vanier

#20. You've always been more than a friend to me, Steph. Always. You have no idea how I've felt, how I still feel about you.

Karina Halle

#21. Quality thoughts will turn their back on you if you don't treat them with respect.

Dov Davidoff

#22. My wife was a riddle. I think all women are. Men are not riddles, even the smart ones. We are independent clauses, such as: "I like meat." "Water feel good.

Harrison Scott Key

#23. The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it's done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It's an aesthetic of miracle.

Jean Nouvel

#24. Companies see newly powerful entities using social media, so they layer on a bit of technology without changing their underlying models or values.

Anonymous

#25. There is no comfort. Our lives dismay us.
We have dreams of leaving and it is the same for everyone I know.

George Orwell

#26. It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

Yuri Milner

#27. Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.
Tick, tick, tick.

Laura Kreitzer

#28. Autumn Dusk
I saw above a sea of hills
A solitary planet shine,
And there was no one, near or far,
to keep the world from being mine.

Sara Teasdale