Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control

Michel Faber

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Voltaire

Everything can be borne except contempt.

Robert Bennett

The contempt has been lifted, and I am delighted that Judy can go forward with her great reporting.

Joseph Addison

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

Bernard Berenson

All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting every toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss

John Boles

It's complicated, because a lot of people from New Orleans had contempt for Houston because it's so modern and spiffy, but the jobs are here.

Leonard Levine

No matter how much hatred and contempt you have for what that man did in the '70s and '80s, it's about what happened in this case. It's about the law. Without the law we have nothing. It's what our country was founded on.

Martin Freeman

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

David Nalbandian

I'll be damned if I'm going to Houston to sit on my butt for a week.

Paul Tagliabue

I really thought it would take longer for Houston to get another team,

Barbara Morgan

I'm living here now. This is my place. I'm not going back. People in Houston have been wonderful to us,

Chris Palmer

Donna (Palmer's wife) and I have made a lot of friends in Houston during the two times we've lived here. We'll always maintain those friendships. I'm just sorry it didn't work out the way everyone wanted.

Jim Lovell

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

Jim Lovell

Houston, we've had a problem here

Ray Stone

We pre-positioned about 60, some in Houston and some in Atlanta, so we could set up a storm office as it unfolded and move the others in quickly.

Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Chase Utley

We knew Houston had lost today. We wanted to get it, and somehow we did.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Tom Morrissey

I think you would see full-time people have their positions reduced, part-time people lose their jobs, and some people just retire.

Toni Simonetti

We are finalizing the number of jobs cuts, ... There will be some, but not on the magnitude of those that we have already done.

Alex Jones

It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.

Two Chainz

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

Two Chainz

I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.

John Carr

I'd like for our controllers to feel much more secure doing their jobs, ... They should be watching their radar scopes, not watching their backs.

Steve Purchase

He has no specific or stated plan about what he wants to do. We want to know, where's the plan, Dick? Where's the plan to keep jobs in Michigan?

Robert Cray

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Gary Griggs

I would not rebuild New Orleans where it is.

Jay Campbell

or any other humanitarian service organizations because it's vitally important to the people of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes who need food, shelter and clothing.

Cindy Sheehan

All you have to do is look at New Orleans to see how vulnerable he's made our country.

Cheri Fields

Everyone in New Orleans thinks this is the big one, the big one and it never comes. This time it did.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.

David Wagner

They don't have much New Orleans to come to right now.

Wayne Gandy

You can't just be thinking about yourself now. Watching what's going on back in New Orleans just makes you thankful you're not in that situation.

Robin Milano

There was no water in it. We're in the 10-20 percent of New Orleans that was not flooded.

Paul Tagliabue

I told our owners (while planning the event) that this would be a true celebration of the New Orleans Saints, and, before you know it, they'll be America's team.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.