Unpropitious Quotes

#1. If there have been mute inglorious Miltons in rural villages, presumably there have been unrealized Washingtons born in unpropitious times.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. CHAPTER XVII OLIVER'S DESTINY, CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION

Charles Dickens

#3. There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

Samuel Johnson

#4. There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." - T. S. Eliot, from "East Coker

Kristin Hannah

#5. Mechanic slaves
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
Uplift us to the view.

William Shakespeare

#6. The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.

Sinclair Lewis

#7. Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you ... and I
believe you love me as much, so why are you avoiding me?

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#8. When we understand the true nature of mind, we start to see these thoughts merely as thoughts instead of engaging with them. They arise, abide, and pass. They have no substance and certainly no power unless we git it to them.

David Michie

#9. You got hair like a girl," Mr. D said. "And you smell like bubble bath. At least I can get a trim." "I'm wearing Old Spice." "Next time try something stronger. Like horse manure." Mr.

J.R. Ward

#10. Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

J. Martin Klotsche

#11. As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

Walter E. Williams

#12. People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#13. Just because you are idle, don't assume God is.

Max Lucado