Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Karpova

It was very bitter for me to see this happen all over again. And I felt I had to do something.

Stanley Hauerwas

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Confucius

It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife

Philip Meyer

Sibling rivalry sometimes leads to the bitterest competition.

Shinzo Abe

I have learned that being a politician is not an easy job. My father was trying to make progress in the peace treaty with the Soviet Union. At that time, he was suffering from last-stage cancer, but he visited Moscow in the bitter cold. I learned from my father that you may have to risk your own life to make such a historic accomplishment.

Cosmin Olaroiu

Before the match I would have been very content with a 1-0 win, but now the victory has a bitter taste.

Grant-Lee Phillips

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Jim Schoenfeld

We each had our share of great plays and mistakes, and their goalie outplayed ours. We fought hard to the bitter end and had our chances, but their guy really made some good saves.

Grenville Kleiser

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

Elie Wiesel

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

Cynthia Lennon

I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring about him and worrying because of the complete change that I saw in him. He'd lost his sense of humour and he got aggressive; he wasn't for the world any more, he was just for Yoko. Before that he opened his arms and embraced the world with his wit and humour - afterwards he was a completely different kind of person.

Dwayne Johnson

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

Claire Trevor

What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.

Anne Lamott

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.

Richard Branson

It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

Ruby Dee

It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out.

Rush Limbaugh

When I talk about divorce, I am not blaming the women I've married. It's not their fault.

Rush Limbaugh

If you're getting married less you're getting less divorces.

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kristi Toliver

As soon as it left my hand, I knew it was going in. I knew I was going to take that shot. Big-time players take big-time shots.

Billy Henning

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

Jill Gaudelli

We knew it was credible. More educational and less commercial.

Bill Jones

We knew it was coming. It was just a matter of how much and when.

J. Taylor

We knew it was coming. It's not a shock. We were ready for it.

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Steven Soderbergh

Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

Steven Soderbergh

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.