Unwilling To Listen Quotes

#1. Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank.

Patrice Pavis

#2. Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#4. Dignity is an anachronism.

Ellen Glasgow

#5. To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things outside God and outside itself to which it turns may be things of beauty.

Augustine Of Hippo

#6. A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

Henri Matisse

#7. Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Thomas Eakins

#8. So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.

Laura Lam

#9. She is always unwilling to understand, to listen,
She laughs to hide her fear of herself.
She has always walked beneath the arches of nights
And wherever she went
She left
The mark of broken things.

Paul Eluard

#10. The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

Edward Abbey