Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

Richelle Mead

Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.

Rebecca West

There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.

Richard Crashaw

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William Wycherley

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

William Shatner

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

Robert E. Lee

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

Samuel Johnson

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

Susan Linn

What McDonald's doesn't mention is kids can't exercise off all the junk food they're eating,

Jacob Sullum

What you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, that's pretty personal. It doesn't get much more personal than that.

Totie Fields

I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.

Rhea Seehorn

I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.

Woodrow Wilson

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

Richard Louv

Green exercise improves psychological health.

Richard M. Nixon

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

William Henry Harrison

The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

William Henry Harrison

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Samuel Johnson

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Henry Ford

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Napoleon Hill

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

Mo Rocca

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Milton Friedman

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

Mahatma Gandhi

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

James Surowiecki

To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.