Unsubdued Quotes & Sayings

Analogy cannot serve as proof. — Louis Pasteur

But before and after the Mongol upheaval, the Khazars sent many offshoots into the unsubdued Slavonic lands, helping ultimately to build up the great Jewish centers of eastern Europe. — Salo Wittmayer Baron

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople. — Inara George

Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters. — Henry James Sr.

Do young people have the moral stamina to carry through in case of economic depression? ... The real tests of the [younger] generations have not yet come, but they are on their way! — Billy Graham

The problem with talent, though, is that in most cases the person can't control its amount or quality. You might find the amount isn't enough and you want to increase it, or you might try to be frugal you make it last longer, but in neither case do things work out easily. Talent has a mind of its own and wells up when it wants to, and once it dries up, that's it. — Haruki Murakami

Millions of Bible-reading Christians who today call themselves charismatics do not believe in health and wealth teachings. — Craig S. Keener

But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what's perplexing, what's beautiful, what's true. — John Timpane

Divinity must live within herself:
Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow;
Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued
Elations when the forest blooms; gusty
Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights;
All pleasures and all pains, remembering
The boughs of summer and the winter branch.
These are the measures destined for her soul. — Wallace Stevens

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers. — H.G.Wells

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued. — Sigmund Freud

Human action is purposeful behavior. — Ludwig Von Mises

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure. — Harry Connick Jr.

Humor is not far from my vocabulary. — Edward Herrmann

Some turn the soil and plant seedlings. We garden with words and nurture affinity. — Sherry Thomas

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups. — James Dyson