Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cheryl Strayed

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Elizabeth McCracken

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

Elizabeth Edwards

If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.

George Washington

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

Errol Morris

Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.

J. William Fulbright

Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

Hans Selye

It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases with progesterone, thyroid extracts and vitamin E respectively. In theory, thyroid therapy appears to be the least well-founded, especially when applied to women without manifest signs of hypothyroidism, yet among the measures mentioned above it is most frequently claimed to have been successful.

Pliny the Elder

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

Tori Amos

It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.

David Dunn

Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.

Audrey Hepburn

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

Denis Thatcher

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

Chad Kroeger

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

Byron Katie

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Diego Della Valle

When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

Deepak Chopra

The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it...find meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

Ben Affleck

It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

Ayad Akhtar

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

Alan Hansen

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

Chris Cleave

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

David Brenner

We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.

Denise Crosby

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

Aaron Spelling

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

Charisma Carpenter

I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response.

Charles Rangel

I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance.

Beth Moore

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.