Beset Quotes

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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is… — Tony Blair
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her,… — Anne Bronte
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something… — Nick Cave
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making… — Max Beerbohm
Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be… — Rachel Billington
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel,… — John Wesley Powell
The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was… — James Russell Lowell
Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where… — Louise Bourgeois
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with… — Thomas Jefferson
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving — Napoleon Hill
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I… — Christer Kihlman
There are many out there who plead and pray for help. There are those who are discouraged, those who are beset by poor health and… — Thomas S. Monson
Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which my salon of… — Rembrandt Peale
Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill… — Fred Thompson
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in… — Michael Lang
Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons. — Mason Cooley
Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life.… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto
But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil… — John T. Flynn
The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on… — Orosius

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