Renounce Quotes

175 Renounce quotes by 132 unique authors

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and… — Sloane Crosley
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of… — Moshe Dayan
You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind… — King Edward VIII
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. — Gustav Mahler
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. — Sivananda
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries… — Simone Weil
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that… — Voltaire
A â€œcollectiveâ€ mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual… — Ayn Rand
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina… — Pat Conroy
God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He… — John Piper
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime.… — Paulo Coelho
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad… — Paulo Coelho
Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that… — Paulo Coelho
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. — Michael Cunningham
When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word… — F B Meyer
God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual… — Elizabeth Gilbert
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we… — Elizabeth Gilbert
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. — G I Gurdjieff

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