Errantry Quotes & Sayings

Don't live a normal life by default, push the boundaries of your potential. — Steven Redhead

Path of knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour. I — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Two glasses of ice water--with ice. — Hunter S. Thompson

Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment. — Philip Zaleski

Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry. — E. M. Forster

The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor is a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth. If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity, and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character. In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion at the expense of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: "Help and not Fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension". — Swami Vivekananda

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda. — Kofi Annan

He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe. — Peter J. Carroll

How long were you supposed to mourn, and what did they say? Make your life a tribute to the loved one. — Margaret Atwood

I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity. — Frances Trollope

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne. — Miguel De Cervantes

Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The CIA special unit that was searching for Osama bin Laden has been disbanded. So I guess, mission accomplished. — David Letterman

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters. — Carol P. Christ

Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. — Zooey Deschanel

We believe in a particular order not because it is objectively true, but because believing in it enables us to cooperate effectively and forge a better society. — Yuval Noah Harari

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please. — Shirley Hazzard

I can't hate you. We're too connected. I can't hate you without hating me. — Kitty Thomas