Smitten Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk. — Sherry Turkle
Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent… — John Henry Jowett
Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on… — John Owen
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come… — Rudyard Kipling
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites,… — William James
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft:… — Aeschylus
Upon that cross of Jesus Mine eye at times can see The very dying form of One Who suffered there for me; And from my… — Elizabeth C. Clephane
What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with… — Jean Dubuffet
Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace… — Charles Spurgeon
The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind… — John Ortberg
War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction,… — Alfred Thayer Mahan
Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten,… — George Horace Lorimer
If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and… — Matthew Simpson
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.… — Isoroku Yamamoto
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. — Thomas Carlyle
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree… — Carl Jung
It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in… — Nigel Slater
Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters;… — Euripides
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts. — Gail Simmons

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