Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

Richelle Mead

Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.

Rebecca West

There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.

Richard Crashaw

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William Wycherley

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

William Shatner

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

Sappho

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

Richard Flanagan

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

Jesper Parnevik

I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit.

David Jones

Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him.

Tony Wingen

He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win.

Jeanine Pirro

Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year.

Travis Cabral

To everyone at Sierra-at-Tahoe, thank you for helping me live my dream. Thank you, Lake Tahoe, for your support. And, most of all, thank you, God, for giving me the talent and opportunity to represent Lake Tahoe and the U.S.A.

S. Hughes

What you're doing is giving the government an interest-free loan.

Terri Schumacher

I thought we did a much better job in the second half, the last 10 minutes of not giving them more second-chance points.

H. Hunt

I thought that was the big difference. We did a lot of things right defensively, but giving up second shots hurt us.

Hilka Klinkenberg

I think we've been guilt tripped enough into giving people tips unnecessarily, and it's time to stop tipping people who give you abominable service.

Diana Williams

his wife recalled. ''I used to say, 'Charlie's asleep.' He was always so calm.

Virchand Gandhi

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

William Wycherley

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

Tori Amos

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

Robin Williams

The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!

Sarah MacLean

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

Samuel Johnson

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.

William Blake

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.