Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles M. Schulz

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

Elizabeth McCracken

Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

Daniel Radcliffe

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

Andrei Tarkovsky

My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be

Alice Hoffman

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

Allison Pearson

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

Susan Sontag

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

Tasha Alexander

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

Judith Martin

Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.

Agnes Repplier

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

Don Marquis

Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

Dalai Lama

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Christopher Moore

Life is an irritation.

Randy Newman

My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.

Miguel de Cervantes

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

John Schuerholz

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish)

Herbert A. Simon

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

Charles Lamb

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Benjamin Hoff

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Edward Snowden

If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.

Edward Gibbon

Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

Bhagavad Gita

Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme.

Sathya Baba

This attachment is not God's gift. Bliss is God's gift. God's gift is Peace. God's gift is Truth. That is the God's gift. All the rest are passing clouds.

Stephen Hill

They were in a lot better shape than I expected, ... They obviously cared for these pets a great deal. It is a good testament to their attachment to their dogs. I think their outcome will be fine. They are going to do well.

Aaron Kornblum

As always, people should be smart about opening any attachment or downloading files, and never open attachments from unknown sources.