Best Beset Quotes
70 Beset quotes by 63 unique authors
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It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one…
— Nelson Mandela
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And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people...The…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which…
— Oswald Chambers
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She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around...
— John Keats
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Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset…
— Dumas Malone
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In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also…
— Major Taylor
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Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how…
— Clifford Allbutt
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Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset…
— Earl Nightingale
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Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory…
— Donald Barthelme
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
— Vita Sackville-West
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Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at…
— Lucy Larcom
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to…
— Alice Meynell
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not…
— Malcolm Mclaren
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Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Never before was it as incumbent upon every members to restate loyalty and exemplify fraternal obligation by consistent life and unimpeachable character. But these must…
— Jewel
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How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment…
— Walter Lippmann
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what…
— Abbe Pierre
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My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world.…
— Andrew Weil
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