Quotes by Wavering We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects. B.K.S. Iyengar wavering fool attention 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 wavering husband thinking Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology. Charles Sanders Peirce wavering curiosity religious 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 wavering prayer perfect At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats D. H. Lawrence wavering bats way My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. David Almond wavering superstitions two O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit! Elizabeth I wavering woe care The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged. F. H. Bradley wavering self mean Even as the needle that directs the hour, Francis Quarles wavering soul secret There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering. Franz Kafka wavering goal way 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 wavering belief enemy Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits. Helen Keller wavering spirit courage All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen. James Freeman Clarke unseen-things wavering men My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack! James Keller wavering giving way You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wavering consistency men 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 dormant weak How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices. Jonathan Swift wavering passion men I'm a strong believer in stating your position and not wavering. Mitt Romney wavering believer strong Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace. Nehemiah Adams wavering thrones grace With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Ovid wavering fickle doe 12»