Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. — John Updike
If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. — A.E. Housman
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. — William Hazlitt
I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do. — Joe Satriani
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. — A. E. Housman
There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person. — Warren E. Burger
Incorruptible Quotes
Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland. — James Connolly
Bitcoin is a bank in cyberspace, run by incorruptible software, offering a global, affordable, simple and secure savings account to billions of people that don't have the option or desire to run their own hedge fund. — Michael Saylor
The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness. — Max von Stephanitz
I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World. — Charles I of England
The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman. — Emily Post
I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible. — Narendra Modi
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor. — Arthur Schnitzler
Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Incurable Quotes
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge. — Avicenna
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. — William Wilberforce
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown. — Charles Grandison Finney
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married). — Phyllis Schlafly
The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too. — Bobby Jones
May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. — Zachary Taylor
I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard. — Salvatore Ferragamo
For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor. — Swami Vivekananda
Incurable Disease Quotes
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. — Hippocrates
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. — Georges Rouault
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement. — Viktor E. Frankl
We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end. — Andrew Greeley
In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life. — Karen Duffy
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin. — Bill Bryson
There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people. — Bernie Siegel
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. — William Shakespeare
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods. — Robert Collier
Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable. — Farrah Fawcett
If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings. — Susan Polis Schutz
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. — William James
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long. — Margot Asquith
The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures. — Charles W. Pickering
Political correctness is akin to antibiotics: use it frivolously for everything & you'll breed your own custom tailored incurable nightmare. — Eric Weinstein
Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise. — Hannah Arendt
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable. — Gorgias
Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma. — Norman Doidge
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus. — John F. Kennedy
Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else. — Aristotle
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt. — John Calvin
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. — Robert Collier
Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possibly the incurring of any new debt. — Alexander Hamilton
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. — Immanuel Kant
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. — Victor Hugo
If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will. — Confucius
...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good? Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness? — John of Damascus
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