Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Thomas Merton

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

Thomas Carlyle

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Chinua Achebe

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

George W. Bush

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

Mignon McLaughlin

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Oscar Wilde

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Susan Sontag

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.