Straitened Circumstances Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause deserves no consideration. — Jeff Cooper

Preaching is truth set on fire. — Jack Hyles

I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that. — Neel Mukherjee

He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events. — Victor Hugo

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. — Confucius

I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late James Watt, who said ... that I deserved hanging for bringing into use the high-pressure engine. This has so far been my reward from the public; but should this be all, I shall be satisfied by the great secret pleasure and laudable pride that I feel in my own breast from having been the instrument of bringing forward new principles and new arrangements of boundless value to my country, and however much I may be straitened in pecuniary circumstances, the great honour of being a useful subject can never be taken from me, which far exceeds riches. — Richard Trevithick

Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance. — Jerry Bridges

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I've wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn't overwhelm me with desire, you're very wrong. I just don't force myself where I'm not invited. (Bones) — Jeaniene Frost

When he told it, I remembered. He handed me my past like ... like a spear. But I do not know if I should take it. Is it still mine, if I do not want it? — Rick Riordan

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. — David Mamet

winter plumb
not plumb — Geof Huth

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents. — Sara Shandler

We are all souls walking on the earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters. — David Levithan

She died without regaining consciousness and without pain they say, and whatever they mean by that since it has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak, since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well. And if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumable finality, I do not know it. — William Faulkner

They succeeded not only in making me normal but also in making me dull . — Pat Conroy

We were looking for an acceptable compromise. — Jonathan Safran Foer