Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

Vittorio Alfieri

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Samuel Richardson

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

Winston Churchill

We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.

Winston Churchill

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

Epictetus

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

John Green

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

Moby

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

Jude Law

I`ve always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I`d rather be the Wicked Witch.

John Gardner

i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.

John Hancock

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

Livy

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

Thomas Merton

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

Sigmund Freud

Opposition is not necessarily enmity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

Jakob Bohme

You are at enmity with yourself.

Howard Cosell

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

Ezra Taft Benson

Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to raze that prison,

Yvonne Johnson

I think we ought to find a way to do it.

Patrick Perry

Life's been good, my wife's been wonderful, and 20 years I thought we ought to celebrate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Edward Gramlich

If you want to keep politicians out of the Fed's business, which we do, then we ought to stay out of their business. That's one viewpoint.

Dave Gomo

If you've never done it, they ought to try it.

Christopher Hill

I'm not sure there is really much more I can talk to them about...I think they ought to come back to the six-party talks without any condition.