Quotes About Wayward

I am not particularly well-behaved.

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I was a bad boy as a child.

The urge to self-deception, which seemed to Keynes fundamental to untrained and thoughtless people, was what he most resisted. Public opinion he recognized as gullible, uninformed, wayward and super-abundant in misplaced confidence. Improvisations, expedients and thoughtless half-truths led to blunders, as he was to demonstrate in The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

A truant disposition.

I had always pictured her living a tumultuous, wayward life, hard years of bad luck-fits and starts,collapse,regret-and ill advised, desperate love affairs. I had always imagined that she'd self-destructed, likely drank herself to the kind of early death that people always call tragic

She was simply a rotten kid.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

I was a bad kid, getting into a lot of wild stuff.

In her lifetime, Emily Dickinson had been called 'the myth'; when she died, Todd saw her disappear more deeply into her 'mystery'. Higginson introduced her to the public as a nunnish recluse who never thought of publication. He characterised her as 'whimsical', 'wayward', 'uneven' and 'exasperating'. Actually, the blueprint for this character goes back to the poet herself:

a voice yelled after me but it was wayward and might have been a cry out of someone's nightmare.

In high school, I was an absolute derelict.

History has no more unlikely heroes than the Israelites of Moses' day. Capricious, fractious, wayward, hardly able to see tomorrow, let alone the unfolding drama of the centuries, they became, in Herman Melville's evocative phrase, the bearers of "the ark of the liberties of the world.

I would write praise poems that might serve as comforts, reminders, or even cautions if needed, to wayward minds and unawakened hearts.

Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.

How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

It is the mystery of the unknown That fascinates us; we are children still Wayward and wistful; with one hand we cling To the familiar things we call our own, And with the other, resolute of will, Grope in the dark for what the day will bring

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

A wayward wind drew a wintry breath across the scene with a sound like a gasp, shivering the grasses.

I am and have been the reaper of wayward souls for a long time.

I was very, very naughty in school.