Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Muggeridge

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Vin Diesel

This woman comes from the darkness into the spotlight and says, 'Get down here right this minute!'

Desiderius Erasmus

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

Richard Gallienne

What of the Darkness? Is it very fair?

Andrew McMahon

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

Anthony Hopkins

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.

Alberto Manguel

Darkness promotes speech.

Charles Buxton

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

Anne Sexton

I grow old on my bitterness.

Confucius

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

Max Lucado

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

Tom Watson

Lots of bittersweet things have happened to me since Bruce's diagnosis in January. The bitterness is that there's nothing to hang on to. Your hope is to find an island before you run out of time.

William Wordsworth

But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.

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.

John Vines

Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing. But, after all, we are a democracy, and that is what democracy is about ... people will have differences of opinion,

John Vines

Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing,

William Gurnall

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

Jonathan Sacks

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

Laurence Sterne

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

Baha'u'llah

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.

Daniel Defoe

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

John Adams

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.