Unworldliness Quotes

#1. My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

Algernon Blackwood

#2. I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
All the world's loves in its unworldliness.

Robert Browning

#3. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

Joseph McCarthy

#4. The difference between conceding and accepting is depression.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was ... New York.

Zach Condon

#6. Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

Stephen Vincent Benet

#7. We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Barbara Jordan

#8. Leaders are the ones who are willing to give up something of their own for us. Their time, their energy, their money, maybe even the food off their plate. When it matters, leaders choose to eat last.

Simon Sinek

#9. Society seems to find it irresistible to characterise the "unworldliness" of the male intellectual and academic in terms of his failure to control the women in his life.

Germaine Greer

#10. Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

George MacDonald