Errant Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked… — Adrienne Rich
According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones… — Robert Klein
Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall… — Herbert C. Brown
No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed. — Bertrand Russell
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause — Miguel de Cervantes
I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been… — Mahatma Gandhi
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and… — Victor C. Ferkiss
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to… — Nick Tosches
The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that there is no… — Hendrik Tennekes
Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him,… — Henry Corbin
A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable. — Watchman Nee
Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink of a bell… — Marlena De Blasi
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest,… — Saint Augustine
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that… — Rumi
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings. — Robert Genn
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant. — Hilary Mantel
Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall… — Laurie Halse Anderson
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. — Bertrand Russell

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