Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de

Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

John Ashcroft

He intentionally selected his victims because of his hatred of women and homosexuals,

Umberto Eco

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

Virginia Woolf

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Virginia Woolf

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred...

Walker Percy

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

Robert Jeffress

If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.

Robert Wright

God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

Dan Hill

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

David Phelps

Something in life inspires me, ... I have a song on my new record, 'Visions of God,' about my kids and not missing the important moments.

Jennifer Westfeldt

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

Alexander Rossi

My goal is to be a racer, and I want to be someone who inspires Americans to watch Formula One.

Rose Mashigo

Making love to my thoughts always inspires me to keep my thoughts aroused, for more inspiration.

Nikki Sixx

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

Lisa Hannigan

Stephen Colbert has such a loyal following; I don't know if it's the same with Jay Leno; he really inspires love in people, and there can be a lucky ricochet of that for some people.

Simon Van Booy

This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets the theme but not the limits of our aesthetic.

Gary Barnett

Everyone kind of pities us. But I don't want a pity party. I want to play football.

Toba Beta

No need to pity if you do not want to help.

Martha Graham

Pity is a corroding thing.

Mark Twain

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

Miguel de Unamuno

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Arthur Helps

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Shannon Hoon

There's a lot that you can be And ain't it a pity But its alright to smile back at me

Josh Billings

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Richelle Mead

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.

Rick Riordan

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Woody Hayes

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

Woody Allen

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

Sara Blakely

The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness.

Robinson Jeffers

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Salma Hayek

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

Ronald Reagan

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.