Not Worthy Quotes - Page 3

• How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice.

  Edmund White

  Book, Past, Sick

  "A Boy's Own Story". Book by Edmund White, 1982.

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• I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

  Alva Myrdal

  Giving Up, Today, Messages

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• Oh brother we are not worthy!

  Rick Jeanneret

  Brother, Hockey, Worthy

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• He held her gaze steady while he summarized her promises. “She will honor me, protect me, obey me only when she believes I’m being reasonable—but I shouldn’t hold out hope that that day will ever come—try to love me before she’s an old woman, and I’d better get it straight in my mind that she will respect me until or unless I do something to prove I’m not worthy, and God save me then. Have I left anything out, Brenna?

  Julie Garwood

  Believe, Honor, Promise

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Wedding”, p.54, Penguin

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• Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

  Moliere

  Passion, Men, Smoking

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• Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."

  Maya Angelou

  Compassion, People, Heaven

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey for O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Moon, Unification Church, Followers

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• Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes; his life and fortunes had depended on the caprice of a tyrant; and, when he ascended the throne, his pride was sometimes mortified by the reflection that the slaves who would not dare to censure his defects were not worthy to applaud his virtues.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hero, Pride, Reflection

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• Tenía las mejillas sonrojadas. Agarró el brazo del Salvaje y lo apretó, flácido, contra su costado. Él la miró por un momento, pálido, dolorido, deseoso y avergonzado de su deseo. No era digno, no... Sus ojos se encontraron por un momento. ¡Qué tesoros prometían los de ella! El rescate de una reina de temperamento. Apresuradamente apartó la mirada, desenganchó su brazo aprisionado. Estaba oscuramente aterrorizado de que ella dejara de ser algo de lo que él se sintiera indigno.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reinas, Ojo, Deseo

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• Nuestro pequeño tiempo de sufrimiento no es digno de nuestra primera noche de bienvenida al Cielo.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Home, Night

  Samuel Rutherford (1818). “Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649”, p.124

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• A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

  Esquines

  War, Evil, Enemy

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• The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Giving, Good Man

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• He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable day for seeding, lovers loving, mothers nursing their children—and all of this was not worthy of one look from his eye, it all lied, it all stank, it all stank of lies, it all pretended to be meaningful and joyful and beautiful, and it all was just concealed putrefaction. The world tasted bitter. Life was torture

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Mother

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• I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

  Milan Kundera

  Self, Feelings, Suffering

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• He who does not fear the sword he holds is not worthy of holding a sword. -Hisagi Shuuhei

  Tite Kubo

  Doe, Worthy

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• I'm not worthy of that," I said. I might be human now, but I understand how powerful a heavenly creature Carter was. "I don't deserve that much regard." He reached out and tipped my chin up. "You do, Georgina. And if you don't believe me now, then strive to be. Live you life. Be kind. Love those you know. Love those you don't know. be worthy of your soul." A tear escaped, rolling down my cheek and probably messing up my mortal mascara. "Thank you, Carter. Thank you for everything.

  Richelle Mead

  Powerful, Believe, Soul

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• .. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.

  Danielle Steel

  Believe, Play, Parent

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• Don’t you do that.” She turned away from the mirror, toward him. “Don’t you dare make a joke. It took a great deal of courage to say what I did. And you don’t have to speak a word in return, but I will insist you be man enough to take it. I won’t have you making light of my feelings, or making light of yourself—as if you’re not worthy of them. Because you are worthy, Colin. You’re a generous, good-hearted person, and you deserve to be loved. Deeply, truly, well, and often

  Tessa Dare

  Men, Mirrors, Light

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• ¿Chico?" - Kyrian "No soy digno". - Nick "¿Qué?" - Kyrian "Tío, eso es un Ferrari, un Lamborghini, un Bugatti, un Alfa Romeo, un Aston Martin y un Bentley. Y no estoy hablando de los modelos baratos. Esos son lo mejor de lo mejor de lo mejor, totalmente cargados. Lo juro, eso es oro de verdad en el Bugatti. Hay más dinero en metal aquí de lo que mi cerebro puede calcular. ¡Dios mío! Ni siquiera debería estar respirando el mismo aire". - Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Real, Niños, Aire

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• Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.

  Bill Buxton

  Thinking, Impact, Names

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• If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.

  Meher Baba

  Drug, Found, Worthy

  "God in a Pill? Meher Baba on L.S.D. and The High Roads". Book by Meher Baba, 1966.

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• I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.

  Susan Orlean

  Gadgets, Figures, Worthy

  "In Beta" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 10, 2010.

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• If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspiring, Stories, Way

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• Wisdom tells us we are not worthy;
  Love tells us we are.
  My life flows between the two.

  Rumi

  Two, Flow, Worthy

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• We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

  Moshe Safdie

  Urban, Architecture, Worthy

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