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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]

Meister Eckhart

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

Mary Douglas

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

Pindar

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

Pope Francis

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car...

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Tracy Austin

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Sam Walton

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

William Hamilton Maxwell

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

Neale Donald Walsch

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

Joseph Addison

Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

Sheikh Ahmad

He is very stubborn. When he puts his mind into something, he will do it.

Laura Vandervoort

A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.

Alex Solis

He really won it very easy. That's what I had in my mind, not to squeeze him.

Jeff Judkins

Havlicek was my idol, so I didn't mind one bit.

Sandra Allen

Her mind was very sharp and never aged.

Heywood Broun

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Dave Tippett

His mind is in the right place now.

Susan Dolan

I think it's important to be mindful about how you live every day - what you think, and how you live. It's part of a mindful lifestyle.

Phil Jackson

I think the only thing it did was take our mind off the game.