Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Monroe

Wouldn't it be nice to be like men, just getting notches in your belt, having affairs with the most atttractive men . . . and not getting emotionally involved.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Warren G. Bennis

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

Saint Augustine

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Saint Augustine

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

Saint Augustine

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Zachary Quinto

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

Zach Braff

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

William Godwin

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

William Feather

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Karen Russell

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Ralph Waldo Emerson

O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

Francois Fenelon

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Mark Calcavecchia

But only because I had to go inside and register,