Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard M. Nixon

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Wallis Simpson

Never explain, never complain.

Saint Francis de Sales

He who complains, sins.

Wim Wenders

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

Philip Yancey

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

Paula White

You've been complaining, you've been depressed, you've been despondent. But take off those garments of heaviness and put back on your garments of praise. I didn't come when you thought I was going to come, but I'm going to be right on time.

Linus Torvalds

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Lily Tomlin

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

W. C. Fields

Marriage is better than leprosy only because it's easier to get rid of.

John Cho

Sometimes you just get giggles leprosy and it can't be helped. I find that there's a direct correlation between fatigue and breaking.

Charles Dickens

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

Henry Miller

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

Ezra Pound

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

George Stigler

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Herman Melville

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

Rosalind Wiseman

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.