Quotes About Born

What if he was simply ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain organs? The neurology of failure. What if he was simply born and destined to live in the shadow of Total Fear and Despair, and all his so-called activities were pathetic attempts to distract him from the inevitable?

Only tyrants and fools made martyrs. He was certainly no fool. And he was no tyrant either- how could he be, he had suffered a hideous stroke. He was a victim. The victim excuse, where evil is born.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.

It seemed to be a matter of general agreement that Hardy Cates was born for trouble, and sooner or later he would find it.

We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

The Bible says that all men born after Adam are sinful at conception. We are all born sinners.

A born terror, a rebel without a pause... Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord.

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

Anne's smile was as sweet as poison. 'What matter? So long as it is a Boleyn girl?' 'I didn't want you to come back to court to be my rival,' I said sulkily. 'I was born to be your rival,' she said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters aren't we?

Intuition is the highest form of knowledge. What we learn from others can be mistaught by those not a fraction as knowledgeable as they pretend or by those who are propagandists with agendas. We are born with intuition, however, which includes the natural law, a sense of right and wrong.

I never thought I would be able to play in Seoul, the city where my mother was raised and I was born, and I was able to perform for my aunt.

Of course, the skull's tongue had to be a lever. "I can't help it," I said, "I'm a born lever-puller.

Yawning, he tossed his clothes over a chair, peeled back those luxurious spreads, and, naked as the day he was born, promptly fell asleep in the Pirate Queen's bed.

People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.

I'm a villain at heart. I'm a born villain.

I'll make some inquiries, but I won't do it for you. I'll do it because Frannie would want me to." "You love her, don't you?" "Go to hell." Jack laughed. "You're too late with that command, mate. I've been there since I was born.

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

you dwell, said he, in the city of Destruction, the place also where I was born: I see it to be so; and dying there, sooner or later, you will sink lower than the grave, into a place that burns with fire and brimstone: be content, good neighbours, and go along with me.