Best Beset Sayings
70 Beset quotes by 63 unique authors
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The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of…
— Andrew Weil
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All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in…
— Washington Irving
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She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing…
— Sarah Dunn
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The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step…
— Susan B. Anthony
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I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally…
— Salman Rushdie
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Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,…
— Chaim Potok
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Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us
— Charles Bukowski
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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to…
— Samuel Johnson
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The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that…
— David A. Bednar
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A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
— Barry Eisler
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For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke,…
— Daryl Hall
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True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have their flaws, but we are eager to believe…
— Robert Dallek
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Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary…
— Louis A. Johnson
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Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done
— Thomas Carlyle
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For my mother, against her will, is beset by suitors, own sons to the men who are greatest hereabouts. These shrink from making the journey…
— Telemachos
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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the fretful…
— John Wesley Powell
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The day when Ill hate you the most Commenced by social site,elaborated by regular calls We have an unbreakable relation,were regular gossips from all Every…
— Unknown Author
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes…
— Unknown Author
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