Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. B. Priestley

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

Isaac Newton

If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

Jeanette Winterson

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return.

Jeanette Winterson

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

Jeanette Winterson

Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.

Jamie Foxx

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

Ben Fountain

Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

Jason Aldean

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Janet Jackson

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Edward Norton

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

Aristotle

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Author unknown

You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

James Gray

The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

Jason Michaels

We had to forget about last night. Last night was last night.

Andy Goldsworthy

We often forget that we are nature...

Alice Englert

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

Sylvia Plath

They would grow old. They would forget me.

Albert Alschuler

How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.

Emil Brown

I don't know how many we've lost in a row. I'm trying to forget about it.

Isobelle Carmody

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.