Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Orson Scott Card

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

Clare Bowen

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

Tony Kushner

We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.

St. Jerome

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

Susanna Kearsley

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Rumi

Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

Rumi

Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.

Robert Burns

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

Gotthold Lessing

A single thankful thought towards heaven is the most perfect of all prayers.

Clinton Portis

Southeast Jerome in Heaven. I'm here in heaven with all my friends.

Herb Caen

One day if I do go to heaven... I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Leslie Howard

Terrible lot of nonsense... heaven help me if I ever read the book.

Bhagavad Gita

The unsuccessful yogi is reborn, after attaining heaven and living there for many years, in the house of the pure and prosperous.

Ben Nicholson

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Al Franken

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

Baltasar Gracian

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Desiderius Erasmus

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Marlo Raynolds

As oil prices have gone up, you get this increased desire to get out onto the new frontiers of oil. We're now getting into the dirtiest sources of oil anywhere.

David Long

Our size has always held (opponents) under their average. But also our guards are very athletic. Athleticism and desire are what you need to play defense.

Dennis Miller

Our desire was to be annexed into one of the villages of Columbia, but it didn't turn out that way.

Mark Wheeler

Our desire is to consolidate the market as well so we'd be interested in what their view is. Anything could happen.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Mike Baker

Our effort and desire were there throughout the game. We just weren't very smart with some things we did.

Manmohan Singh

Our emphasis and sincere desire is that this matter should be resolved without taking recourse to coercive methods and any sort of confrontation, as they only exacerbate tensions in the region and beyond.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.