Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

Elton John

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

Francois de Malherbe

While you are meditating revenge, the devil is meditating a recruit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

Francis Quarles

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

Francis Quarles

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

Ian McDiarmid

At least Satan fell; he has a history, and it's one of revenge.

Steve Nash

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean Toomer

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

Grimes

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

Goodluck Jonathan

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

Horace

There is moderation in everything.

Gottfried Leibniz

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

Gottfried Leibniz

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Allen Klein

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Allen Ginsberg

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

Allan Bloom

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Alison Pill

Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind.

Alicia Sacramone

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

Ann Landers

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

Ann Landers

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.