Avowing Quotes & Sayings

And that, despite the fact that we'd broken up seven years prior and I'd been the one to finally - firmly and permanently - walk away from him and on toward Henry, his engagement and upcoming wedding still ate away at my emotional landscape, as if him avowing himself to another woman was somehow a blight, a pox on me. — Allison Winn Scotch

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable. — Helene Cixous

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it. — Henry Ford

Men who are thoroughly false and hollow, seldom try to hide those vices from themselves; and yet in the very act of avowing them, they lay claim to the virtues they feign most to despise. 'For,' say they, 'this is honesty, this is truth. All mankind are like us, but they have not the candour to avow it.' The more they affect to deny the existence of any sincerity in the world, the more they would be thought to possess it in its boldest shape; and this is an unconscious compliment to Truth on the part of these philosophers, which will turn the laugh against them to the Day of Judgment. — Charles Dickens

If there is any trouble within your heart - be free, in the name of Jesus Christ — T. B. Joshua

Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny. — John Hancock

I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career. — Novak Djokovic

Ask a man enough questions, and his belief in his understanding fades before him as does a dream upon waking - unless it is a true understanding. — Ki Longfellow

You should be a missile and go and destroy your opponent. — Carlson Gracie

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none. — Khalil Gibran

A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable. — Joan Kirner

It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them. — Saint John Chrysostom