Wayward Quotes

55 quotes by 45 authors

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery.… — Bono
How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod. — William Shakespeare
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts… — Abraham Maslow
In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by… — Donald E. Westlake
Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church. — Paul Washer
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. — Walter Raleigh
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. — Queen Elizabeth II
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. — Horace
Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace." — Winfield Scott
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one… — David Lehman
When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet,… — John Steinbeck
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. — Sophocles
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death… — Zygmunt Bauman
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward… — William Wordsworth
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward… — Lucretius
Go home and say to yourself, â€˜I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times.… — Elizabeth Prentiss
Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is… — Elisabeth Elliot
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! — William Makepeace Thackeray
The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with… — Timothy Keller
Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries… — Learned Hand

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