Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

Whitney Cummings

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

Sara Gruen

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

Robert Hunter

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

Walter Kaufmann

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

Voltaire

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

William Falconer

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

William Butler Yeats

I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.

Omar Suleiman

I think it (suspending aid) will be a punishment for the people, which we don't want.

Saint Augustine

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

William J. Brennan

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

William J. Brennan

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

Woody Allen

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

William Gilmore Simms

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

William Ellery Channing

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

Ric Flair

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Robert Duvall

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

W. Somerset Maugham

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Vladimir Nabokov

Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.

Yann Martel

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

William Osler

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.