Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

W. Somerset Maugham

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Joni Mitchell

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

Ann Rice

God kills indescriminantly, and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

Eoin Colfer

I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers

O. J. Simpson

Players are creatures of habit and will revert back to some of the instinctive things they do, so you have to be prepared, I think, to be killing off 10-12 penalties a game and getting 10 or 12 power plays. You do the math.

Pip Coburn

Investors are moving from telescopic-themed-excessive-multiple creatures to microscopic-near-term-earnings-fearing-lower-multiple folks.

W. S. Gilbert

I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

Martin Rees

The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?

Arthur Schnitzler

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Kevin Jones

There are creatures from all over the universe, and they're not all going to look like humans.

Michael Leunig

Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.