Unresigned Quotes

#1. Nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye.

Kristin Cashore

#3. But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

Adrienne Rich

#4. And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds.

Jack Kerouac

#6. Write code as if you had to support it for the rest of your life.

Kevlin Henney

#7. I don't get grumpy at a 'Strictly' level, you understand. We're just making a television show - the person I'm dancing with can't dance; they're doing their best, and we're not going to win the World Championships.

Anton Du Beke

#8. Novelty's a cloth that wears thin at an alarming rate.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#9. When only a little can be done, doing it becomes the greatest you can do.

Ron Kaufman

#10. In the school they teach you what the world means, and once you have learned, you will always know," Amar's father had told him.
"But suppose the world changes?" Amar had thought. "Then what would you know?

Paul Bowles

#11. One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.

Robin Meade

#12. Private and primitive and a bit on the funky and frightening

Tom Robbins

#13. It's hard to win when you always lose.

Tom Waits

#14. Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.

Woody Allen

#15. - You look fine.
- Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

Zadie Smith