Thwarted Quotes

62 Thwarted quotes by 59 unique authors

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead… — Orson Scott Card
It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and… — George Orwell
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last… — David Mamet
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted… — George Santayana
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. — Hugh Kingsmill
You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing… — Orson Welles
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was… — Jonathan Franzen
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. — Charles Horton Cooley
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. — Henri Matisse
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. — Suze Orman
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. — Morihei Ueshiba
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but… — C.S. Lewis
Fate...may...be...thwarted. — Gail Carson Levine
The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength… — Erich Fromm
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. — William Goldman
The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted,… — Geoff Dyer
...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed… — Evelyn Waugh
Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. — Louisa May Alcott
He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled… — William Shakespeare
I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature… — Neale Donald Walsch
It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as… — George R. R. Martin
From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my… — Veronica Roth

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