Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.

Robert Cormier

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Richard Hooker

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

Richard Whately

When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

Richelle Mead

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

William Mapother

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

Vinoba Bhave

When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.

Woodrow Wilson

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Woody Allen

There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

Adrienne Barbeau

Her pain was very apparent, the torment she was in.

Jesse Jackson

I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.

Kim Bauer

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

Susan Kuretsky

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

William Wilberforce

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

Kelsea Ballerini

I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.

Richard Barnfield

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

Richard Baxter

What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

Reuven Rivlin

The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered.

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.

Willie Nelson

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

Milan Kundera

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more

Marcel Proust

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.

Marcel Proust

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.