Militates Quotes & Sayings

Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice. — Louis Farrakhan

Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will. — Anne Ursu

The difference between the called and chosen is the chosen choose what God called them to, no matter where the choice takes them. — Hope D. Blackwell

He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. — James Baldwin

People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people. — Robyn Davidson

He had told her he wasn't Prince Charming, but what he hadn't said, was he wished he could be. — C.J. Roberts

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. — Andre Breton

This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty. — Francis Schaeffer

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength. — Wole Soyinka

humanity you sick motherfucker. — Charles Bukowski

The idea of original sin
of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives
inherently militates against self-esteem. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality. Sin is not original, it is originated
like virtue. — Nathaniel Branden

Should we start making preparations here? (Tory)
Punk-ass won't come to my island! He knows better. You don't tap on the Devil's shoulder unless you're willing to dance to his tune. (Savitar) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair — Richard John Neuhaus

I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day. — Ned Beauman

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes. — Marquis De Sade

You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest. — R.L. LaFevers

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety. — Rollo May

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women's self development is self-sacrifice. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whatever you do, love everybody around you. — Debasish Mridha

Something has changed, and now, when I look at my students, I see only people who are going to eat up my time. — David Sedaris

When I was seventeen I found a man, or maybe he found me. Away from home for the first time, out of reach of my father's archaic restrictions and my mother's culinary insistence, I cut off my hair, dropped my Christian name, wore black and toyed with anorexia, passing incognito among the city workers, just another ant in that vast heap. — Nell Grey

I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about. — Martin Short

But those eyes, those big green eyes of hers, they bore right into me with crippling force. She wanted it too much; the space Tommy had left in her, she wanted me to fill it. And I couldn't. She looked too young and too scared. almost like she didn't really want it either, she just needed it. I couldn't stick it in and fuck her pain away. I did not know how to fuck at all, let alone as therapy. — Brendan Cowell