Shunned Quotes

45 quotes by 42 authors

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at,… — Karl Philipp Moritz
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral… — Edward Dahlberg
I think women are afraid to say that they don't want children because they're going to get shunned. But I think that's changing too now.… — Cameron Diaz
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations. — Saint Augustine
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without… — Plato
To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and schoo1 to be… — Catharine Beecher
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much… — Stephen King
I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked,… — Mother Teresa
The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah… — S. J. Perelman
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came… — Henry David Thoreau
Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude. — John Clare
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide.… — James W. Loewen
A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is… — Laozi
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public,… — Douglas Adams
Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of… — Swami Vivekananda
I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be… — Mother Teresa
Great work is always shunned at first. — Seth Godin
A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets… — Karl Philipp Moritz
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? — Horace
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table… — Philip Zimbardo

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