Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Dalai Lama

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Dodie Smith

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Desmond Tutu

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Delmore Schwartz

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

John Steinbeck

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

Michel de Montaigne

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Jack Kerouac

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...

Greg Mortenson

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Rick Danko

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Zig Ziglar

You can't climb a smooth mountain

Friedrich Schiller

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Marilyn Monroe

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Austen

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Brigitte Bardot

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.

Elie Wiesel

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Edward Abbey

Women who love only women may have a good point.

Edward Abbey

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Aristotle

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

Stephen Jay Gould

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.