Shunning Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true…
— Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr
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Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is…
— Philip Kapleau
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for…
— Saint Augustine
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There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became…
— Richard von Weizsaecker
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How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd…
— John Dryden
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Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts,…
— George Washington
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So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot…
— Libba Bray
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You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly…
— Jerry Saltz
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This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind
— Sri Chinmoy
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And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future…
— Garth Stein
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Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts…
— George Washington
Who Wrote These Shunning Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Shunning Quotes as follows: