Repining Quotes

#1. Yet on the other hand, I did manage to write, and without more than occasional repining, during my years of bondage, and I would not, as some unsatisfied writers do, blame my lack of productivity upon my lack of time.

Iris Murdoch

#2. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without repining the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to Power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

#3. There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.

Alice Oswald

#4. Repining is of no use, ma'am," said Ralph. "Of all the fruitless errands, sending a tear to look after a day that is gone, is the most fruitless.

Charles Dickens

#5. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#6. Work or suffering found her listless and dejected, powerles and repining; but gaiety expanded her butterfly's wings, lit up their gold-dust and bright spots, made her flash like a gem, and flush like a flower.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

Alice Oswald

#8. I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

Terence Stamp

#9. Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

Karen Thompson Walker

#10. No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought that counts. -Bob Proctor

Bob Proctor

#11. Beatrice," she says. "Beatrice, we have to run." She pulls my arm across her shoulders and hauls me to my feet. She is dressed like my mother and she looks like my mother, but she is holding a gun, and the determined look in her eyes is unfamiliar to me.

Veronica Roth

#12. Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

Jeremy Rifkin

#13. Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

Pema Chodron

#14. In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.

Emile Verhaeren

#15. There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

Jeffrey Kluger

#16. We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.

Margaret Thatcher

#17. Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

Nick Offerman

#18. Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#19. Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.

Ilchi Lee