Renounces Quotes

#1. 'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces the faux-found-footage ShakyCam style, instead employing a traditionally smooth visual style.

Richard Corliss

#2. The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

Raoul Vaneigem

#6. The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

George Gissing

#7. The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

Fernando Pessoa

#8. Who says "hypothesis" renounces the ambition to be coercive in his arguments. The most I can do is, accordingly, to offer something that may fit the facts so easily that your scientific logic will find no plausible pretext for vetoing your impulse to welcome it as true.

William James

#9. Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.

Ayn Rand

#10. There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

Sigmund Freud

#11. A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#12. What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

Chogyam Trungpa

#13. None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Anais Nin

#15. War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

A.A. Milne

#16. Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

Aaron Klein

#17. The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

Lois Capps

#19. Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

Thomas A Kempis

#20. He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.

Martin Luther

#21. Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys.

Fernando Pessoa

#22. Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Theodor Adorno

#23. Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

Franz Kafka

#24. A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

Khalil Gibran

#25. If we knew how to find
the lost, we would know
how to rediscover
the parts of our minds
left behind
in battle.

Margarita Engle

#26. Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#27. When it comes to beauty whatever makes you look good and feel good is right.

Francois Nars

#28. Burnout ... occurs because we're trying to solve the same problem over and over.

Susan Scott

#29. She studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything

Andrei Makine

#30. If it wasn't for stress, I'd have no energy at all.

Sheri Richey

#31. The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#32. Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Joey Santiago

#33. My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear ... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.

Jemima Kirke