Top 26 Spurning Quotes
#1. Oh, Miss Shirley, can you smell the apple-blossom fragrance?" Having a nose, Anne could.
L.M. Montgomery
#2. Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.
Aeschylus
#3. Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
Anthony Lewis
#4. I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.
Sienna Miller
#5. Ships are expendable; the whales are not.
Paul Watson
#6. The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing to him who delights in numbers, spurning alike the wild irrationality of life and baffling complexity of nature's laws.
John Lighton Synge
#7. One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.
Paul Dano
#8. When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
A-Trak
#9. one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.
Geraldine Brooks
#10. American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
Upton Sinclair
#11. Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn't exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing.
Rick Riordan
#12. His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her
grave-clothes. Yes! Yes! Yes! He would create proudly out of the
freedom and power of his soul, as the great artificer whose name he
bore, a living thing, new and soaring and beautiful, impalpable,
imperishable.
James Joyce
#13. Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.
Marc Andreessen
#14. The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#15. Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,
The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,
The more I give the winds my pinions free,
Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
Giordano Bruno
#16. Nothing important should ever be more than two clicks away.
Steve Krug
#17. If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side.
Srikumar Rao
#18. Faith exists in different persons in various degrees, according to the amount of their knowledge or growth in grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.
Marianne Wiggins
#20. Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind ...
Thomas Buchanan Read
#21. Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.
Joel Osteen
#23. Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
Zora Neale Hurston
#24. In all the time we've spent together, I think we both sort of knew this wasn't a forever thing. I'm not sure why, because I could easily love him that way.
Colleen Hoover
#25. Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.
Lewis Thomas
#26. Danny the whole idea of proving that people weren't rational felt a bit like proving that people didn't have fur. Obviously people were not rational, in any meaningful sense of that term.
Michael Lewis
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