Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Robin Roberts

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Milan Kundera

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

Mahatma Gandhi

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

Whitney Houston

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

Robert Southwell

I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.

Saint Francis de Sales

Mount Calvary is the academy of love.

Saint Francis de Sales

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

William Gurnall

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

Winston Churchill

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Reggie Bush

I want the Saints to be one of those teams where when other teams see us on the schedule, they know they're in for one hell of a game.

Margaret Atwood

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

John Lennon

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

Tom G. Palmer

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Stanislaw Lem

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

Sigmund Freud

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

Socrates

It has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere.

Michael Ondaatje

He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?

Maurice Sendak

I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.

Laini Taylor

We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

Marlene Dietrich

I have been photographed to death