The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, 'Again the sun anew each day and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul.'
Quotes about thwarted (16 Quotes)
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
While President Bush argues that terrorism, not Russia, is the gravest threat to U. S. security, it was his Administration that thwarted Russia's desire for both sides to destroy the nuclear warheads that are to be taken off alert under the new accord. As long as the U. S. insists on keeping some of those weapons intact to face future threats, Russia is likely to follow suit. That means even more nuclear weapons--retired but still potent--will be crammed into the more than 300 buildings in Russia now holding the Holy Grail of terrorists atomic warheads or the fissile material critical to building them. Our greatest danger now isn't that Russia is going to attack the U. S. with nuclear missiles, ... It's that some group is going to get its hands on the growing number of nuclear warheads stored in less-than-secure conditions in Russia.
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desirelearned from the teachings of antiquitythat our writers on public affairs have in common They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.
Take care you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted No one more easily led, when I have my own way but don't put me in a frenzy.
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
So wealth doesn't bother Fernando Ferrer. What bothers him is that his ambitions are being thwarted by Mayor Bloomberg's record, ... And unlike John Kerry and unlike some of Ferrer's other rich supporters, Mayor Bloomberg earned his money. He wasn't born with it.
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
(The suspect) was thwarted in one case because he had to talk to managers and they asked for more information. He said he had to go get something from his car, went out and never came back. He got 283 from one business, 322 and 806.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.