Affirm Quotes
216 quotes by 178 authors
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To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise…
— Don DeLillo
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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
— William Carlos Williams
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I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop…
— Roland Barthes
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Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic.…
— Paulo Freire
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Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all…
— Dorothy Thompson
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So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No.…
— Frank O'Hara
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If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things;…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.
— Aberjhani
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— Thomas Aquinas
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When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as…
— Bell Hooks
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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up…
— John Cage
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Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen…
— Stephen Covey
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To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a…
— Paulo Freire
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Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work…
— Pierre Bourdieu
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Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it…
— Joyce Meyer
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To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that…
— Gilles Deleuze
Who Wrote These Affirm Quotes
178 authors contributed a total of 216 Affirm Quotes, led by these top contributors: