Disenthrall Quotes & Sayings

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past. — Abraham Lincoln

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one. — Eric S. Raymond

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. — Abraham Lincoln

As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere. — John F. Kennedy

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This is a moral moment. This is not ultimately about any scientific debate or political dialogue. Ultimately, it is about who we are as human beings and whether or not we have the capacity to transcend our own limitations and rise to this new occasion. It is about whether or not we can see with our hearts, as well as our heads, the unprecedented response that is now called for; whether or not we can - in Lincoln's phrase - disenthrall ourselves, shed the illusions that have been our accomplices in ignoring the warnings that have been clearly given, and to hear clearly the ones that are being given now. — Al Gore

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure. — Conor McGregor

You need to be able to confide in people. — Katie Price

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. — C.S. Lewis

The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated! — Joseph B. Wirthlin

In the woods the tree frogs were going smelling rain in the air they sounded like toy music boxes that were hard to turn and the honeysuckle come — William Faulkner

It is impossible to understand the financial health of big financial institutions and their potential impact on the market. They don't even understand it themselves. — Paul Singer

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time. — Bobby Sherman

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history ... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey. — Studs Terkel

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time. — Rebecca Wells

All men have need of the gods. — Homer

He was so disrespectful that it was believed that he spoke truth.
("The Undying Thing") — Barry Pain

I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered? — Lauren Barnholdt