Spurn Quotes

27 quotes by 24 authors

But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility,… — Laozi
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. — J. Sidlow Baxter
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected. — W. S. Gilbert
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. — Alan Watts
People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers. — Jill Briscoe
Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind… — George Gilder
God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish… — Max Lucado
I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of… — Henry David Thoreau
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of… — Leo Tolstoy
Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam:… — Marcus Buckingham
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other,… — Rita Mae Brown
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of… — Francois Fenelon
Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had… — Arthur Conan Doyle
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. — William Shakespeare
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap… — Stephen Fry
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the… — Anne Fortier

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