Affirm Quotes

216 quotes by 178 authors

To plot is to live. [â€¦] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise… — Don DeLillo
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
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
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
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
some may think that to affirm dialogueâ€”the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the worldâ€”is naively and subjectively idealistic.… — Paulo Freire
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
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.
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
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
Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters. — Aberjhani
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish. — Thomas Aquinas
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
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
Love is a verb. Love â€“ the feeling â€“ is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen… — Stephen Covey
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
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
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
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
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

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