Wean Quotes

#1. It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. As we grow spiritually, God begins to wean us from things that we think we can't live without: things, comfort, the longing for life to 'work.' That's a childish instinct, to say, 'Life has to work the way I want it to work, and now'.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#3. I think we should wean Grandma.

Renata Suerth

#4. I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers ... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

John Liu

#5. Merit is no qualification for freedom. [...] Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

#6. Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

J.C. Ryle

#7. Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

John Angell James

#8. So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

John Milton

#9. Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.

David Brainard

#10. Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.

Rumi

#11. We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels

Richard Branson

#12. No number of compliments will convince her of anything, and one of Jacob's projects in their marriage is to wean her off perfectionism.

Maggie Shipstead

#13. She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

Mary Shelley

#14. Travelling in one direction. Yearning to be going the other way. She has lived here. She will survive there.

Asa Larsson

#15. Lord, I pray that lead me to the people who need my help.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

Caroline Norton

#17. Yeah, that's what they claim...we'll accept you so long as you don't go out and get laid. Sucker you into a good ol' feeling of acceptance and then kick you harder and harder in the balls as they try and wean you off of your desires. I believed I could convince a dog to turn into a cat.

James Buchanan

#18. I play blues old-timey style.

Pinetop Perkins

#19. His lips against my ear. "I love it when I catch you staring at me. You have no clue what it does to me.

Misti Kirby

#20. There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

Sandra Cisneros

#21. Wean our heart from every creature Thee to love and Thee alone.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#22. Well they have to have something to wean Caluntians off Venusian moles. Seems humans are the best therapy, to consume that is. They say we are a bit gamey though. An acquired taste, one we hope not many acquire.

Neil Leckman

#23. Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

Gary Oldman

#24. To confess one's guilt and one's original sin is little, very little; one must wean oneself away from them completely. And that takes more than a little time.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.

Rabindranath Maharaj

#26. Death doesn't always want your eternal sleep. Sometimes Death just wants your eternity.

Jacquelynn Gagne

#27. No man can be just who is not free.

Woodrow Wilson

#28. The way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

Miles Franklin

#29. In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

Edgar Allan Poe

#30. I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

Alice Englert

#31. And when the work of grieving is done,
The wound of loss will heal
And you will have learned
To wean your eyes
From that gap in the air
And be able to enter the hearth
In your soul where your loved one
Has awaited your return
All the time.

John O'Donohue

#32. The best I can hope for is the occasional moment of loose happy freedom - found usually with Harp but once or twice on this trip with Peter - that tells me it's okay. That if I was put on this earth for any particular reason, it was to experience love and joy, just like anybody else.

Katie Coyle

#33. Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.

Oliver Bullough

#34. If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.

Wayne Rogers

#35. A combination of both Biblical and scientific knowledge together with spiritual and physical understanding will help you to become the best of the best in the sphere of your activity.

Sunday Adelaja

#36. Idiot woman seems to think she can wean herself off love,

Kellyn Roth

#37. Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.

Cal Newport

#38. The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

Mahatma Gandhi

#39. It would be an advance if the secular theoretical establishment, and the contemporary enlightened culture which it dominates, could wean itself of the materialism and Darwinism of the gaps

Thomas Nagel

#40. The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

Og Mandino

#41. My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

Daniel Day-Lewis