Unshouldered Quotes & Sayings

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel. — Elvis Presley

And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She. — John Donne

But surely we are not allowed ... "
"Allowed?" I counters. "We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up. — L.A. Meyer

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break. — Chuck Palahniuk

Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not. — Ralph Marston

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures. — A.R. Rahman

Sadie, Carter, Annabeth and I exchanged uneasy looks. Normally when a god says, We must stop him , it means, You must stop him while I sit back and enjoy a cold beverage. But Nekhbet seemed serious about joining the gang. — Rick Riordan

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. — Jonathan Swift

I've always been intimidated by gyms, have never been able to enjoy the towel-round-the-shoulder confidence of somebody who knows he can bench-press 250 pounds, or even knows what that means or how much 250 pounds weighs. I just know I don't like lifting heavy things, especially since I had this wrist injury which stopped me playing tennis and which means that I've gone from being fit and thin-looking to just a feeble streak of unshouldered manhood whose only saving grace is that he doesn't take up much space, who leaves plenty of room for others - especially now that I was several days into a quasi-hunger strike. — Geoff Dyer

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings. — Therese Of Lisieux

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human nature, thereby creating intellectual civilization. — Fernando Pessoa

We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side. — Desmond Tutu