Beset Quotes
70 quotes by 65 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
— Napoleon Hill
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... 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.
— Mason Cooley
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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
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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
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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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