Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

William Wilberforce

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

Carl Jung

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Richard P. Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Russell Crowe

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

Ron Blomberg

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Truman Capote

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Truman Capote

Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

Ricardo Montalban

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Robert Crumb

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Wislawa Szymborska

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

William Goldman

I write out of revenge.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Samuel Johnson

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

William Hazlitt

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

Jose Mourinho

If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing

Jonathan Swift

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Tryon Edwards

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Sappho

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

Samuel L. Jackson

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

Ursula K. Le Guin

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

Robert South

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

William Alexander

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

William Watson

She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave...

William Hazlitt

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

W. Somerset Maugham

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.