Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Karnazes

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

Amber Benson

Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all the little details, so that you feel as though you are enmeshed in Coley's brain: thinking her thoughts, feeling her confusion, anger, and, in the end, pain. I just don't think it's possible to read this book and not identify with Coley in some way.

Amartya Sen

If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

Christopher Moore

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

Angelina Jolie

What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.

Angelina Jolie

Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?

Andrew Cohen

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Jon Wagner

It's a big honor for me and the kids. It should be a lot of fun.

Carolyn Brown

It's a wonderful thing to do to honor someone in perpetuity.

Steve Nelson

It's a wonderful honor. It's humbling. I'm honored.

Rebecca Garang

We want to keep his legacy alive. Keeping the peace is how we can honor his memory.

John Garang

We want to keep his legacy alive, ... Keeping the peace is how we can honor his memory.

Abel Ferrara

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

Suzanne Gray

To win that kind of tournament really is an honor for them. To win it twice in a row (would be) even more of an honor.

John Matthews

We wanted to honor Jim Rosenblatt by naming this regatta after him.

Ron Jones

We've honored veterans before, and it's normally the men who get honored, but this year we thought we'd give it a twist and honor the women. You women need to be honored.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Amartya Sen

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

Andrew Young

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

Andrew Weil

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

Chuck Palahniuk

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

Chuck Palahniuk

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Chuck Palahniuk

the world is the cradle and your trap.

Chuck Palahniuk

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.