Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Trevorrow

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.

Kofi Annan

the Secretary-General earnestly hopes that all sides in Nepal will take all measures which will lead to peace talks.

Toni Harris

We are working earnestly on all that as quickly as we can.

Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune was my god.

Nicholas Rowe

As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great.

Anne Frank

Misfortunes never come singly.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

John Dryden

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Ona Solomon

Sometimes we just go for our own pleasure.

Phil Jackson

This is something I never thought could possibly happen, ... It's a pleasure to come back.

Kathleen Glynn

This really is a pleasure, and I thank all of you.

Arthur Adamov

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.