Wavering famous quotes

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Attention #Wavering #Fool

In negotiating with rejected lovers or husbands, women must stop thinking they can make everyone happy. In many cases of harassment and stalking, it is clear that the woman never learned how to terminate the fantasy which requires resolution and decisiveness on their part. Wavering, dithering, or passive hysterical fear will only intensify or prolong pursuit.
-- Camille Paglia

#Husband #Thinking #Wavering

The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Prayer #Perfect #Wavering

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
-- David Almond

#Two #Wavering #Superstitions

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
-- George Eliot

#Enemy #Wavering #Belief

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits ...
-- Helen Keller

#Courage #Wavering #Spirit

My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!
-- James Keller

#Giving #Wavering #Way

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
-- Jean Paul

#Goal #Darkness #Wavering

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Men #Wavering #Affection

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
-- John Calvin

#Wavering #Weak #Dormant

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.
-- Judy Holliday

#Sailing #Wavering #Ships

Wavering and burning like a golden lie.
-- Matthew Sweet

#Lying #Expression #Wavering

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.
-- Ovid

#Wavering #Steps #Doe

The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the wisdom of liberalism. The truth of the matters is that the ACLU has always been a highly politicized organization.
-- William Anthony Donohue

#Organization #Politics #Wavering

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.
-- Thomas Morley

#Wind #Wavering #Sometimes