Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elif Safak

After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

Dodie Smith

Death is too much to ask of the living.

Ann Voskamp

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Sophocles

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

Sophocles

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

Sophocles

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

Sophocles

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Arthur Miller

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Don Novello

Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

Colleen Atwood

The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.

Dalai Lama

I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul.

Dick Gregory

...Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human...

Dev Patel

The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.

Desmond Tutu

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Ashton Eaton

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Ayn Rand

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Jane Goodall

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'