Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leslie Nielsen

Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

Phil Gramm

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

Phyllis McGinley

Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.

Julian Barnes

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Julian Barnes

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Joss Whedon

Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

Joseph O'Neill

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

Justin Halpern

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

Thomas Jefferson

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

Thomas Gage

No blood has been shed under my command this far; and I am determined none shall be!

Thomas Becket

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

Viggo Mortensen

Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.

Veronica Roth

Blood is a strange color. It's darker than you expect it to be.

Veronica Roth

Faction before blood.

Veronica Roth

My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior

Susie Bright

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

Susan Mitchell

There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's leg, all the time, and he draws blood without a doubt.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Little Richard

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

Lee Krasner

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Lil Wayne

All about my riches/ My name should be Richard

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

LaToya Jackson

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

Theophilus London

Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever.

Lady Gaga

No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.

Karl Popper

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.