Besetting Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. — Samuel Butler
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole. — John Stuart Mill
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of… — Fredrik Bajer
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do… — Karen Joy Fowler
Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education,… — Harry Woodburn Chase
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. — John Owen
Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins. — J C Ryle
Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude… — Azar Nafisi
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted… — Charles Dickens
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of… — Aldous Huxley
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns. — Jean de La Fontaine
Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour. — Alfred North Whitehead
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their… — James F. Cooper
...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. — Jack London
You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" "My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin. — Cassandra Clare
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of… — Aldous Huxley
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. — P.J. O'Rourke

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