Befalls Quotes

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

I have no name: I am but two days old.

What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

The end of birth is death; the end of deathIs birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou,Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befallsWhich could not otherwise befall?

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man;

with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.

There are two great injustices that can befall a child.

One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body;

it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.