Encouraged Quotes

539 Encouraged quotes by 484 unique authors

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to… — Helen Keller
We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible,… — Neal A. Maxwell
We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed… — Sarah Waters
I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged… — Bob Dylan
So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run… — Annie Dillard
The vicar, whose name is Reverend Waite, leads us in prayers that all begin with 'O Lord' and end with our somehow not being worthy-sinners… — Libba Bray
...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand,… — Albert Camus
The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance… — Harvey Fierstein
Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king,… — Burton Raffel
The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save the world. What… — Nhat Hanh
What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the… — Peggy Noonan
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that… — Chuck Palahniuk
These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards… — Terry Pratchett
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying… — Audre Lorde
As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense. — John Christopher
I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman… — Janet Evanovich
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so… — John Gardner
Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of… — Cormac McCarthy
But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight… — Toni Morrison
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. — Richard Dawkins
The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins-… — Jonathan Stroud
Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because… — Kevin Smith
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your… — Walt Whitman
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields… — Arthur C. Clarke

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