Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Zig Ziglar

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

William Wilberforce

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

Carl Jung

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Richard P. Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Russell Crowe

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

Ron Blomberg

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Truman Capote

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Saoirse Ronan

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

Sara Paxton

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

Wesley Morris

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

Samantha Bond

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

Mikhail Prokhorov

Frankly speaking, I like women. In my heart, I am still teenager. And I am very open and I don't want to hide this.

Mila Kunis

It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.

Miep Gies

But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.

Ntozake Shange

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

John Adams

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

James Altucher

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Malcolm Turnbull

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Laura Hillenbrand

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it