Acquiescence Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquiescence Intensity Passive
Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
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For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
I'm always more scared of things not changing, of not being as alive as I could be. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to. — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness,… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together.… — David Icke Copy Share Image
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