Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

William Shakespeare

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Nermine Othman

Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don't want any more.

Milwaukee Brewers

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Bertrand Russell

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

Bertrand Russell

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.

Tanja Frieden

I was stoked he did well (Thursday). We always say let's have a podium together. To do it here is wicked cool.

Charlotte Bronte

It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.

Charles Caleb Colton

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

Alan Rickman

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

Edith Wharton

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

William Shakespeare

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

F. Sionil Jose

It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.

Malala Yousafzai

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

Bryant H. McGill

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

Elie Wiesel

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Brandon Marshall

I understand that you're supposed to protect a fellow officer, but when injustice is happening, it's on them to speak up as well.

Bayard Rustin

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

Edmund Burke

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!

Adam Hochschild

The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.