Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tori Amos

It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.

Samuel Johnson

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

Samuel Johnson

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

Samuel Johnson

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Pliny the Elder

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

Cheryl Strayed

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Eric Liu

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

Keyshawn Johnson

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

Henry Blodget

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

Jon Landau

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

Sandra Navarro

The magnitude of this public corruption will only be matched by the arrogance of the man who committed these acts.

Jim Calhoun

Their arrogance doesn't show. They are not doing any kind of chest thumping that some teams carry, in my opinion, too far.

James Corden

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

Os Guinness

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Alice Lowe

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Samuel Johnson

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

William Blake

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Rebecca Solnit

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

Frederick the Great

One should never despair too soon.

Lu Xun

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Luc de Clapiers

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.