Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Gore

The people who died here were victims of one of the cruelest visitations of evil this nation has ever seen, ... But we offer them today not pity but honor, for as much as any soldier who ever fought in any war, they paid the price for our freedom.

James Yee

Whether or not the law is passed, no one should be subjected to cruel or unusual punishment while in custody of the United States government,

Elaine Gower

There was feces at least 3 inches deep throughout house. ... This really moves to a cruelty situation.

M. Wolfe

It's a cruel position. It's a hard one to master. There are so many intangibles, so many factors that come to bear.

Comte de Lautreamont

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Thomas Hardy

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Mikhail Gorbachev

A true leader, a man of his word and an optimist, he traveled the journey of his life with dignity and faced courageously the cruel disease that darkened his final years. He has earned a place in history and in people's hearts.

Donna Favors

Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.

Isabelle Huppert

The story is very cruel and very sharp,

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Tony Cristaldi

We'll be averaging about five degrees higher than normal.

Brian Davis

They finally all played well. It was 20-25 mph winds and it was 48 degrees when it started. But the team played well and persevered.

Paul Morris

It's 180 degrees different than what it was in the '60s.

Bob Newhart

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Alan Moore

Never despair. Never surrender.

Chinua Achebe

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Edmond de Goncourt

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Woody Allen

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Charles Baudelaire

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

William Shakespeare

I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.

William Shakespeare

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Bobby Douglas

We wrestled pretty well the first round. We had some moments of despair, but overall we had a pretty good round.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Charles Spurgeon

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.

Alan Bennett

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.

Alan Arkin

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Edmond Rostand

Sans doute Je peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute. Without doubt I can teach crowing: for I gobble.

David Hume

The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

Derek Fisher

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Edgar Allan Poe

I fell in love with melancholy

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Sting

Melancholy is no bad thing.

Thomas Willis

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

Soren Kierkegaard

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

John Milton

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Charles Dickens

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

Charles Caleb Colton

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Charles Caleb Colton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Spurgeon

God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

Al Stewart

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

Akhenaton

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

Chris Colfer

I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly?

David Walliams

It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

German Proverb

When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top

David Seiders

When you start to see cancellations, you really get worried.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Grady Fuson

When you start talking about prospects, it's a very subjective term. The way I look at it is as long as you've got a uniform on, you've got a chance.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Cedric Benson

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.

Charisma Carpenter

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.