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J. K. Rowling quote: "I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and..."
I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. J. K. Rowling
I live in an unethical society that coarsens the sensibilities and thwarts the capacities for goodness of most people but makes available for minority consumption an astonishing array of intellectual and aesthetic pleasures. Those who don’t enjoy (in both senses) my pleasures have every right, from their side, to regard my consciousness as spoiled, corrupt, decadent. I, from my side, can’t deny the immense richness of these pleasures, or my addiction to them. Susan Sontag
all living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted. Orson Scott Card
Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glitterred as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Anduril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. "Elendil!" he cried."I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the elfstone, Dunadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly J. R. R. Tolkien
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. Jonathan Edwards
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the... Cormac McCarthy
/it is the greatest and the talles of trees that the gods bging low with bolds and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves - Herodotus Herodotus
Viktor E. Frankl quote: "It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness."
It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. Viktor E. Frankl
She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of thwarted love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work. Rumi
By rendering their enterprises profitable, the consumers shift control of the factors of production into the hands of those businessmen who serve them best. By rendering the enterprises of the bungling entrepreneurs unprofitable, they withdraw control from those entrepreneurs with whose services they disagree. It is antisocial in the strict meaning of the term if governments thwart these decisions of the people by taxing profits. From a genuinely social point of view, it would be more... Ludwig von Mises
It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness. William Godwin
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it. C. S. Lewis
Do you see how God always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees? For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. Herodotus
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. Louisa May Alcott

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