Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

George Woodberry

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

Walter Savage Landor

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

Jose Saramago

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

Epictetus

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

Mike Patton

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Suki Waterhouse

I'm active, but I just don't like being hungry or feeling like I've deprived myself. I want to enjoy life.

David Perlmutter

The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.

Jasvinder Sanghera

They deprived me of my freedom. I suffered the emotional and physical abuse, and I ran away.

Patrick Robinson

We express regret at his passing. We also regret his untimely passing has deprived not only him but indeed all the interested parties of a judgement upon the allegations in the indictment.

David Axelrod

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.

Jules Feiffer

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Mary Lambert

There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles... We've all had someone who has hurt us. So let's talk about it.

Adam Gilchrist

If he were injured, England would immediately be deprived of their leading bowler, one of their most reliable and destructive batsmen and their most inspirational personality,

John Galsworthy

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

E. Helm

He wanted better for myself and my sister. He didn't want me to have to endure the strenuous work.

Richard Grimes

We must endure the monotony of evryday work to be able to finance our dreams.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who has a why can endure any how

Virgil

Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!

Walker Percy

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

Robert Gottlieb

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

Robert Jordan

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Gustav Mahler

Can this be endured at all? Won't people kill themselves afterwards?

Dave Roberts

I need to be able to endure a game,

Gustav Mahler

Can this be endured at all? Won't people kill themselves afterwards?

Bob Schindler

If not for God we could not have endured this process.

P. J. O'Rourke

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

Bob Myers

It's good that people recognize a piece of technology that has endured through two programs -- I guess really three, if you include Skylab.

Keith Bishop

Do you want to live over the next four years what we have endured for the last three weeks?

Charlene Johnson

When I look back at their lives, at the hardships they endured and the sacrifices they made for generations they had never even met, I don?t see how we can do less.

Homer Homer

Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured

Doug Pritchard

Together we have endured uncertainty, hope, fear, grief and now joy.

John Roberts

those responsible endured the sort of publicity reserved for adults who make young girls cry.

Linton Johnson

Keeping our riders loyal and happy pays dividends.

Tori Rosenthal

Just seeing how some of those people lived and how little they had and how happy they are. It put in perspective what's important in life.

Frances Rodman

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Jeff Hawkins

I swear my heart stopped. I was so happy when he was able to come back.

Don Neise

Greg battled to get out of trouble. In the sixth inning, he got out of a bases-loaded jam. We're just happy to get out of here with a win.

Jenny Taylor

Greer is just scrappy. They get after it. They may be small, but they play big. My kids play big, too, and I'm happy with the way they played and the way they've played all season.

Kathy Miller

Hawaii's going to be fun, but kind of bittersweet, too, because Dan's got to go back. It will be loud and happy on the way there, and kind of quiet on the way back.

Bill Gates

Happy Valentine's Day. My other invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney.

Phil Savage

Happy New Year. I've really got nothing to say.

Christine Nixon

It is a level of security that will be the highest ever seen in this country.

E. B. White

We're one of the highest rated shows on television for males between 18 and 34.

Nort Thornton

We may not have won, but we had the highest number of improved performances this week.

John Latina

He was still in the playoffs when he threw us the playbook and told us to learn it. We all had to learn a new system and that's what we wanted, because, obviously, that system is so successful at the highest level that that's what you want to learn.

Robert Khayat

Rod means a lot to all of us. He's been wonderfully successful. He's an honorable man and I have the highest regard for him.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

Jeffrey Benjamin

Integrity of one's values is the highest score.

Howard Hamilton

I have the highest respect for her in and out of the courtroom. Her word is her bond.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme practical maxim, this the turning point of the world's History.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

Cindy Hockenberry

If you know your itemized deductions will be more than the standard deduction, you can still just use the standard deduction to get an idea in your mind. This will give you the lowest estimate.

Mary Badham

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Ben Gunn

The UK now offers the lowest margins in the world.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Rod Butler

This is the lowest score we've shot in the three years I've been here.

Terry Matterson

It was undoubtedly the lowest point of our season so far.

Jack Vaughn

You might find it on the Web for (cheaper). You can't always be the lowest price.

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.

John Dryden

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune was my god.

Nicholas Rowe

As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great.

Anne Frank

Misfortunes never come singly.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.