Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Elie Wiesel

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Elie Wiesel

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

Edward Snowden

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

Deepak Chopra

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

Dave Mustaine

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

Bernie Sanders

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

Vince Vaughn

We wish we could get to New Orleans, but we don't know when that will be,

Dorothy Allison

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

Donald Lowe

It would have put everyone's mind at ease very quickly and would have helped the investigation,

Aaron Baddeley

This is a stepping stone for the big picture. It's going to ease (expectations) and I'm going to learn from today. I learned from Jim, watching him play. It's a step in the right direction.

Atharva Veda

You must be uncomfortable when those around you are unhappy; when you ease their discomfort, you are making them happy and making yourself happy, isn't it?

Barry Unsworth

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

Francis Clines

Thus does the Beeb ease the English into another gray familiar day, another half-century of magic mystic rays.

Albert Einstein

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

Anne Graham Lotz

The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease.

John Barbour

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.

George Eliot

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.