Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Whitman

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Walter Raleigh

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Miriam Toews

It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

Joe Biden

As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along ... that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president that it might close.

Joan Rivers

I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn't get better. YOU get better.

Gayle Forman

That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

Lisel Mueller

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.

Lord Byron

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

Andy Reid

The league has been notified by the players' union that they will be grieving our right to take that action, therefore there is nothing more that I can say at this point.

Trudi Canavan

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

Wentworth Miller

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Samuel Richardson

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

W. H. Auden

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Robert Orben

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

William Graham Sumner

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

Samuel Johnson

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Marcel Proust

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Joseph Addison

We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.

Joseph Brodsky

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

Lee Ryan

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

Mark Johnson

It was so important that this not be an imaginary land.

Anne Miller

AN IMAGINARY AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN FROM THE INSIDE,

Rickie Lee Jones

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Nicholas Eberstadt

To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn,

Jane Lindskold

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

Christopher Koch

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.