Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Tierney

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

Frederick Douglass

From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.

Henry Miller

Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Philander Johnson

Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!

Jeremy Hardy

Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.

Glenn Greenwald

When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.

Gerry Spence

Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.

Gwen Ifill

People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.

Jack Miller

Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

Sophocles

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

Gustave Flaubert

The future is the worst thing about the present.