Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Elie Wiesel

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Elie Wiesel

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

Edward Snowden

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Douglas Adams

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Simon Mainwaring

The future of profit is purpose.

Thomas Merton

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

Saadi

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

Thomas Watson

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Reggie McNeal

You were created on purpose for a purpose.

Geena Davis

As an Independent, she has no party backing, ... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

Kary Mullis

People say to me, How many people have you seen die of this disease? They say, You don't know what causes it because you've never watched them die.

Justin Baldoni

People grow; people grow apart, and cancer... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

Nelson Mandela

No stone will be left unturned to establish fully what the causes were and where responsibility lies,

Steve Simmons

Any kind of glitch causes problems that send tremors through the whole industry.

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

Anne Wright

I wanted him to stop, ... I tried not to nag. What good does it do? It just causes dissension.

Bryan Jones

Oil pollution causes a lot of problems in the oceans. And most of it (oil pollution) can be prevented.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.