Froward Man Quotes & Sayings

Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are. — Vironika Tugaleva

Have your dream ... What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) — Haruki Murakami

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone - and then, to actually forget - can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart. I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender. Often I feel myself to be rocking between them (seasickness). — Maggie Nelson

What you give comes back to you. It's not tit for tat
life isn't that simple
but what you give always comes back to you. — Anne Bishop

How many times must we be loved in order to be happy? — Jan-Philipp Sendker

When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of the Nazi hakenkreuz, but for a boy growing up after 1945 the shock of encountering the emblem at all was a memorable one. I later learned that in the mid-1930s Kipling had caused this 'signature' to be removed from all his future editions. Having initially sympathized with some of the early European fascist movements, he wanted to express his repudiation of Hitlerism (or 'the Hun,' as he would perhaps have preferred to say), and wanted no part in tainting the ancient Indian rune by association. In its origin it is a Hindu and Jainas symbol for light, and well worth rescuing. — Christopher Hitchens

There is a century-old saying, The dollar votes more times than the man. — Michael Parenti

I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow. — Plutarch

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. — Bernie Siegel

I think 40 is a good age to run a country. But I've always been fast. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

Man to the last is but a froward child;
So eager for the future, come what may,
And to the present so insensible. — Samuel Rogers

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane. — Natasha Trethewey

I believe it was Jung who said that all beings are joined by invisible threads. You pull one, and the whole set moves. That is why every small act affects everything and everyone. Titus in Love in Lowercase — Francesc Miralles

Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless. — Mike Catt