Inelegance Quotes & Sayings

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it. — Flannery O'Connor

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic. — Junot Diaz

I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc.. — William Rowan Hamilton

Whatever you know about here it doesn't
tell you — Mary Oliver

It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria are the Gram-negative bacilli, and the most susceptible are the pyogenic cocci ... In addition to its possible use in the treatment of bacterial infections penicillin is certainly useful ... for its power of inhibiting unwanted microbes in bacterial cultures so that penicillin insensitive bacteria can readily be isolated. — Alexander Fleming

Actually just has a born tech-science wienie's congenital impatience with the referential murkiness and inelegance of verbal systems. — David Foster Wallace

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned. — Charles Baudelaire

Recall that thoughts lead to feelings, feelings lead to actions, and actions lead to results. Everything begins with your thoughts - which are produced by your mind. — T. Harv Eker

Beginning with the first day of life outside the womb, every child is asking two core questions: 'Am I loved?' and 'Can I get my own way?' These two questions mark us throughout life, and the answers we receive set the course for how we live. — Dan B. Allender

To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles — Sunday Adelaja

European institutions and the worldview of conquest and colonialism had formed several centuries before that. From the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, Europeans conducted the Crusades to conquer North Africa and the Middle East, leading to unprecedented wealth in the hands of a few. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Forgiveness as the response to the inevitability of failure. Suffering understood as part of life. Trust as the other side of anguish. A permanent thankfulness. — James Carroll

With heaven in our hearts,
life is romancing us
with glimpses of
the universe dancing. — Ann Louise Ramsey

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. — Jane Austen

People were unable to appreciate the worth of what was profound and stable which provided them with a safe anchor, so ruminated Mahendra. On the other hand, people foolishly ran after what was ephemeral and deceptive which gave one no real contentment - life's most desirable prize! — Sukhendu Ray