Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Collier

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Mario Cuomo

The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents.

Osvaldo Puccio

Once more in Chile we can happily affirm that there is equality before the law and that the courts of justice are functioning impeccably.

Joseph Campbell

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

Louise Hay

As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

Philip Sidney

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

Stephen Covey

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth.

Robin Hobb

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

Jan Rokita

This marks the end of the post-communist era.

Hank Brown

This marks a new day for the university.

Peter Kalikow

today marks a turning point in the relationship of the MTA and its unions.

Maxim Marinin

We just thought about skating, not a medal. We just thought to skate well and we did it, and the marks were OK.

Louis Cataldie

We'll look for things like identifying marks such as tattoos and personal effects. We'll get DNA. We'll do X-rays if they have prostheses and we'll do fingerprints if we can.

H. L. Mencken

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

Sylvia Hatchell

You look at the whole picture and there are just a lot of question marks that I think a lot of people have.

E. T. Bell

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

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.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Khaled Hosseini

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.