Famous Quotes & Sayings

Octavian Paler

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

Octavian Paler

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

Naguib Mahfouz

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Michael Showalter

Their unifying characteristic is they're not romantic. They have this inability to recognize the simple romantic needs of their counterpart. They just never know the right thing!

John Devine

The inability to raise prices requires us to take even tougher measures to reduce costs,

Eric Holder

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.

Paul Feig

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Scott Reed

There's no question that since Katrina, there have been some missteps that have shaped the president's inability to get a message out. These are no one person's fault. But they happened. And now it's time to get back on the offensive.

Zhuangzi

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

Shunryu Suzuki

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

Emily Dickinson

So few that live have life ...

Haruki Murakami

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Tom DeLay

It raises the level of emptiness that you feel for the loss of a good friend,

Paul Allen

There's an incredible feeling of emptiness and missed opportunity.

Carl Sagan

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Judit Molnar

We are presenting the emptiness and mourning the Holocaust left behind.

Bertrand Russell

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.