Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

Charles Peguy

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

Oscar Wilde

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

Michel de Montaigne

We have power over nothing except our will.

Joseph Joubert

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

Thomas Fuller

Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.

Bernard Beckett

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Ambrose Bierce

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

Ambrose Bierce

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Ian Fleming

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

James A. Baldwin

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

Frederick Buechner

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

Nicolas Chamfort

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Mason Cooley

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

William Shakespeare

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

Jay Asher

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

Heber J. Grant

If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.

Ezra Pound

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.