“Can you join, ask sincerely for affection
without sweaty hand of expectation,
understanding and accepting
if it never is given?”

— Viggo Mortensen

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never i…" by Viggo Mortensen?

Viggo Mortensen 8

American actor 1958

Related quotes

“I ask you not to expect all answers to all problems from me, even though you expect me to lead the way. I ask you not to expect me to solve all your problems, even though you voted for me to do that. I only ask you to join hands with me to be the best we can be, and together lay foundation for a future that is more secure and certain for our children and generations to come.”

Bukola Saraki (1962) Nigerian politician

Inaugural Address (2003)

“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

“Its easier to forget a thing without a name. I’ve learned to guard my affections.” “I know, you’ve never asked mine.””

Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) American fiction writer

Devoted

“Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

The Great Infidels (1881)
Context: All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.