Thwarts Quotes

#1. As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.

John O. Brennan

#2. What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Andre Gide

#3. The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.

Carl Jung

#4. Even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites - but often thwarts - our investigation and our understanding.

Dean Koontz

#5. My captain on the snowy horse
He's coming back to take me home
(He's coming back to take me home)
He'll find me fighting back the terrible thwarts
'Cause I'm not afraid to die alone!

Owl City

#6. A wrong choice thwarts God's original intention

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth
The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.

Piet Hein

#8. It was a momentary laughter, in which our souls united. But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happiness depletes it; that nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

#9. It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Viktor E. Frankl

#10. All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.

Agnivesh

#11. Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

Manly Hall

#12. There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar to Mormonism - it's any patriarchy that I think stops, thwarts, or denies our creativity.

Terry Tempest Williams

#13. The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.

Khaled Hosseini

#14. Everything made by man's hands has a form, which must be either beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, and helps her; ugly if it is discordant with Nature, and thwarts her; it cannot be indifferent ...

William Morris

#15. Tell me this, why should you - a spoiled boy who thwarts his king, lives like a libertine, and manipulates others - deserve to be happy?" "I have manipulated

Anonymous

#16. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt

James Allen

#17. Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

John Lancaster Spalding

#19. The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

Madame De Stael

#20. For some the truth is too painful to hear. For others, it's a healing balm. This is why I write - to heal.

Kathleen M. Rodgers

#21. Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Benjamin Disraeli

#22. Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.

Henry Rollins

#23. My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

Steve Earle

#24. Mohammed had Sex with a Dead Woman Volume 13 Kanz Al-Ummal (the treasure of deeds) By Ali Bin Husam Ad-Din Al-Mufqi Al-Hindi, Published by Mu'assasa Ar-Risala. Beirut 1989. Pages 609-610 Hadith Numbers 37609-37611 Shirazi

Gary Cass

#25. He may have gotten spanked by a barbecue grill, but on a desk unit, he was a king.

J.D. Robb

#26. There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

Connie Mack

#27. Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Claudius Galenus

#28. Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Basil Hume

#29. Only in art was cheerful condemned.

Nicki Salcedo

#30. Every day, God grants us the precious gift of life. Yet every day, we squander it with our selfish, petty concerns, rather than helping someone as He helps us.

Kirn Hans

#31. All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

Dorothy Parker

#32. I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

Ray Lamontagne

#33. Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

Rumi