Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

Alan Davies

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

Jane Austen

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

Brent Sexton

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

Elif Safak

After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

Dominic Cooper

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Abraham Verghese

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

Dodie Smith

Death is too much to ask of the living.

Andrew Sullivan

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

Arthur Conan Doyle

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

Barbara Mandrell

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

Ayn Rand

There are two side to every issue.

Bertrand Russell

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

Brian Bosworth

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.

Jane Elliott

White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.

Charles Davenport

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

Charlene Li

In theory, it makes a lot of sense to combine the two operations, especially on the back end. But merging the two actual portal consumer experiences into a unified site will be a nightmare.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I have a rule: Pretend you're going on a trip for two weeks, and pull what you'd wear on that two-week trip, and get rid of everything else.

Adolph Green

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

Sam Levenson

Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village

Stanley Kubrick

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Mahatma Gandhi

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Matt Groening

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.