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.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Katy Trotter

Just to be a member of the Stanford women's cross country team with those girls, I was in awe.

Patrick Sweeney

Kaneohe's kind of a country town, I guess. There's not really too many places to go not too much stuff to do.

Kathryn Bigelow

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

Bryan Lowry

Joe Mansour put his life at risk and made enormous financial sacrifices for his country. I hope that in the end the system that until now has failed him will set circumstances right.

Joseph Kabila

I swear my fidelity to the country, ... and I will respect the constitutionality of the republic, to guarantee its independence and to unite the Congolese people and to unite the entire country and defend its borders.

Mohamed ElBaradei

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

Aaron Patzer

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

Tom Graves

Our 23 million patriots ? our veterans of World War II and Korea ? are rarely recognized other than on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Yet these men and women are as patriotic as those who founded this nation.

Victor Koo

Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

Arthur Conan

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

Charles de Secondat

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

Charles de Montesquieu

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Brian Doyle

It was founded essentially on that 50 years ago.

Leonard Boswell

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Tim Mead

He could remember things that happened 40 years ago better than you or I can remember what happened last year.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Rick Barnes

He's been through tougher things. What he went through a year ago, what happened (against A&M) pales to that.

Tomas Enge

I think it's going to take us a week to understand what happened today.

Kevin Boyer

I think it's going to take a while. You had residents on television saying pretty raucous things. We can't ignore what's happened over the last month.

Bill Hauck

Lake Tahoe is the key to our water supply, and what has happened there this past month is nothing short of awesome.

Makosi Musambasi

I was drunk, Anthony was drunk. No one will ever know what happened in that pool.

David Cameron

Whatever happened to no reverse gear? Whatever happened to the historic turning point? If you keep turning it's not going to be very historic.

Frank Beamer

Whatever happened is unfortunate. I'm not happy about some of the things that happened in the first half. We'll leave it at that.

Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Walker Percy

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

Robert Jeffress

If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.

Warren Mitchell

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

William Taylor

The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

Voltaire

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

William Butler Yeats

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

Winston Churchill

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

David Barron

he said. ''He significantly narrowed the scope of constitutional protection. It's an unfortunate turn in constitutional law.

Travis Xiong

It is a lot more complicated than it seems. Back in Laos, there is no law on when one can marry. Only reasonable ages.

Tom Angell

We've been trying to repeal this law ever since it was passed in 1998.

Carolyn Brown

I think the ACLU may be able to support the law here in Kansas. It is being written in a way that does not take away the right to assemble.

Mark Almond

Law and order is now a big issue,

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Peter Andersen

Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.

Proverb Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Jason Collins

Guarding Shaq is not a one-man job. It's going to be by committee.

Joseph Lowery

Here's a man who may have a major-league arm, but he's got a bush-league attitude.

Lynne Abraham

Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich wife ... he has a magnificent house. He has the method, the means and the money to make his escape.

Shannon Flaherty

Here you have a man running for national office, and he's not qualified to be a precinct chair.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,