Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sappho

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

Emmy Rossum

A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play.

Oprah Winfrey

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

Payne Stewart

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

Maggie Stiefvater

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

Haruki Murakami

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

John Masefield

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

Diane Warren

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.

Jules Massenet

Henceforth there will be no letters to answer; I have bade farewell to first performances and the literary and other discussions which come from them.

Richard Crashaw

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .

Robin Hobb

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

Walter Savage Landor

There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

Yann Martel

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

Jorge Luis Borges

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

Khalil Gibran

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

David Brenner

You weren't doing a Cher thing. This wasn't your 12th farewell tour.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

Chris Porter

Knowing you're a part of this ... is something.

Fernando Alonso

Knowing what it takes to win a title, I think they need a year running at the top first. Next year is more realistic for them. They'll make a big step at some point.

Ben Wallace

Knowing Tony, I know he wouldn't go in the stands for no reason. You've got to protect your family.

Katha Pollitt

knowing that it's there for them if they really need it.

Tiki Barber

Knowing Stray, he'll play. He was walking around, but he wasn't walking all right. But he's always ready to play, even when he's hurting, he's OK.

Manny Acta

Knowing Pedro, he doesn't want to participate just to participate.

Bubba Tyer

Knowing Jon, he might have taken it off.

Mark Lewis

Knowing it's going to work is the rarest part of that equation. It was all at once for us.

Brian Durocher

We've got to start getting some positive momentum. A win is very important for us and the positive momentum will snowball. And the longer we stay in games, the more pressure it puts on other teams knowing that the underdog is still competing.