Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

W. Somerset Maugham

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

William Penn

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

Neale Donald Walsch

A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands.

Milarepa

I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

William H. Macy

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

Wendell Berry

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

Yoko Ono

All I'm saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

Morgan Saylor

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

Mahatma Gandhi

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Noam Chomsky

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

Julia Bacha

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

Ozzy Osbourne

You can never take the violence back.

Julia Ormond

Enslavement is when one person completely controls another person, uses violence or violent threats to maintain that control, exploits them economically, and pays them effectively nothing. Trafficking in persons is a process of enslaving someone.

Ed Mathey

After this weekend you will start to see some separation in the standings.

James Madison

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

Louis D. Brandeis

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

Buddy Bell

There's not a whole lot of separation between them, to be honest.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Maximilien Robespierre

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Jennifer Capriati

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

Condoleezza Rice

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.