Quotes About Thwarted

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

The prey of fear, he, alwayscurtailed, 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."

I think you must be some kind of a freak. Either that or you're trying toconvert me to your secret horse religion.""Darn, you got me, " she says theatrically. "You thwarted my evil plan.

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.

Contradictory emotions roiled over her; grief over Arnold's thwarted plans and their mutual hopes for a large reward; relief that her husband was safe, coupled with doubts abut their marriage. Would she ever see Arnold again?

Then at once "human nature" is again invoked to prove the necessity of change, for "human nature" has been thwarted or insulted by the dominant system. "Man" can no longer be defined as what suits the dominant system, when the dominant system apparently does not suit men. I

Our sense of safety and stability in the world and our interpersonal relationships become undermined by childhood abuse because we carry these early thwarted—that is, deeply conflicted—survival patterns into adulthood.

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”