Involuntary Quotes

Involuntary Quote of the day

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

Most real relationships are involuntary.

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

All beginnings are involuntary.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

Pure memory isn't based on recall but rather involuntary memory that's in your body and your nerves.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.