Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Woodberry

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

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.

James Beattie

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

Alan Watts

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

Alan Bennett

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Charles Lamb

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

William Shakespeare

Our content Is our best having.

Bob Iger

Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content.

Bill Gothard

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

Mahmoud Abbas

Today is a day of joy and happiness that our people were deprived of in the past century.

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.

Laurie Colwin

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.

Rand Paul

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

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.

Anne Bronte

I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

Jasvinder Sanghera

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

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.

Thomas Keneally

But my mother felt very acutely having been deprived of further education. She felt it very acutely. So there were always books.

Moshe Dayan

I have the strength to endure it all.

Natasha Trethewey

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Richard Jefferies

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.

Mark McKinnon

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

William Shakespeare

For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

E. Helm

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who has a why can endure any how

Joe Johnston

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

Natasha Trethewey

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Joe Johnston

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived, / But what torments of grief you endured / From evils which never arrived!

Chris Klug

I was more nervous to meet them than I was for my Olympic race. I mean, how do you thank somebody for saving your life at the same time they just endured a horrible family tragedy?

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.

John Roberts

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

Rosa Parks

the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passenger. We had endured that kind of treatment for too long.

John Boehner

We as a Nation have endured heartbreak, tragedy, and occasional setbacks, but we are resolute in taking the fight to the enemy and winning.

Doug Pritchard

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

Bertrand Russell

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

Mike Listerman

That was very difficult. As happy as I was I had sadness in my heart because my son was hurting on the other side. ... This one's a lot easier.

Billy Gillispie

That was a hard-fought win, and I'm very, very, very happy to get it.

Olli Jokinen

We can't give him credit. He's probably happy he got his first shutout in the NHL, but we made him look good. We really didn't test that guy.

Steve Todd

We just didn't have enough speed. He has a lot more water length than we did. I was happy we stayed with him.

Kelvin Sampson

We were happy we won those games, but you could just tell that we didn't have our edge. When you lose your edge, it's hard to get back.

Chris Davis

We were happy we were able to negotiate it amicably,

Josh Wilson

We were happy to get 17 votes from his home turf.

Yolanda Griffith

We were happy in the locker room, but I was disappointed that we let our lead go away so easy. This has got to be a lesson for us.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Brad Smith

We have very popular products, and so we're put under this kind of pressure. But security remains our highest priority.

Jacques Chirac

Today the highest priority is the return of security and public order, ... The last word must be from the law.

Peter Jackson

The producers of 'The Hobbit' take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge.

John Beilein

I think Louisville is playing at the highest level they have all year.

Martin Sheen

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

Robert Kiyosaki

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

Dr. Julius

We are trying to find patients at the highest risk and treat them for a longer period of time.

Hudson Taylor

While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

David Tronson

Most Americans spend more than they usually have, which is why we have the lowest savings rate in the world.

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.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

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.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune was my god.

Anne Frank

Misfortunes never come singly.

Philip Omondi

It was just misfortune and we are still perplexed by what happened.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

A. J. Bowen

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

Nicholas Rowe

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

Nicholas Rowe

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,/ And none could be unhappy but the great.

Louisa May Alcott

Everybody has their days of misfortune.

John Dryden

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.