Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discountenance Quotes & Sayings

Enjoy reading and share 14 famous quotes about Discountenance with everyone.

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Pinterest Share on Linkedin

Top Discountenance Quotes

Discountenance Quotes By Virginia Woolf

sometimes she felt that it was necessary for her very existence that she should free herself from the past; at others, that the past had completely displaced the present, which, when one resumed life after a morning among the dead, proved to be of an utterly thin and inferior composition. — Virginia Woolf

Discountenance Quotes By Henri Nouwen

Ministry in no way is a privilege ... it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister. — Henri Nouwen

Discountenance Quotes By John Adams

Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of rights, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice. — John Adams

Discountenance Quotes By Joseph Conrad

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion. — Joseph Conrad

Discountenance Quotes By Simon Callow

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape. — Simon Callow

Discountenance Quotes By Jonathan Harnisch

I question how life is treating me, I should be asking how I am treating life. — Jonathan Harnisch

Discountenance Quotes By Nicholas Sparks

It isn't. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. These two elements always go together. — Nicholas Sparks

Discountenance Quotes By Marie De France

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish. — Marie De France

Discountenance Quotes By Jenni Moen

You wonder when it's going to get easier for us, but it's not easy for anybody, Allie. Everyone has their shit. It's different shit for different people, but it's still all shit. Being able to deal with it... that's where greatness lies. And we're great. — Jenni Moen

Discountenance Quotes By Matthew Lewis

You can stay true to yourself and your friends, you can do the right thing, you can do with your life whatever you want to. I think that's a lovely message. — Matthew Lewis

Discountenance Quotes By Alexander Hamilton

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void. — Alexander Hamilton

Discountenance Quotes By Rae Carson

Mary left me a bristle brush and some soap, and I get to work scrubbing everything, paying special attention to my face and dirt-encrusted fingernails. I soap down my hair and dip beneath the water to rinse, then finger comb it as best I can. Strands of hair come away from my scalp and float like water bugs on the surface. I keep combing, and more hair comes away. Then more. I decide to leave my hair alone. — Rae Carson

Discountenance Quotes By Anne Bronte

However little you may esteem them as individuals, it is not pleasant to be looked upon as a liar and a hypocrite. To be thought to practice what you abhor. And to encourage the vices you would discountenance. To find your good intentions frustrated and your hands crippled by your supposed unworthiness, and to bring disgrace on the principles you profess. — Anne Bronte

Discountenance Quotes By Dean Koontz

I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book. — Dean Koontz