Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zhuangzi

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?

William Hazlitt

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

William E. Simon

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

William Davenant

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

William Dean Howells

I wonder why we hate the past so.

Wendelin Van Draanen

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

Wendell Berry

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred,

Walter Raleigh

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

W. Somerset Maugham

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

W. Somerset Maugham

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.

Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

Vladimir Nabokov

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Vladimir Nabokov

Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

Yoko Ono

You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.

Yoko Ono

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

Yann Martel

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

Wynton Marsalis

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

William Penn

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

Yehudi Menuhin

I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.

Robert Knepper

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

Robert Griffin III

I hate to talk about myself like that, but if I had to straight up tell a head coach or an owner why they should take me, it's because I'm the best in everything I've done.

Robert Greene

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Robert Anton Wilson

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

Robert Anton Wilson

Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.

Robert Anton Wilson

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

Ricki Lake

I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!

Rickie Lee Jones

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

Richard M. Nixon

Those who hate us only win if we hate them back

Richard M. Nixon

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

Rebecca Mader

You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.

Rebecca De Mornay

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

Richard Flanagan

Murder and hate are as deeply buried in the human heart as love, perhaps more so, and in truth they're rather entwined, and if you tried to separate them, you'd be missing something important and human.

Richard Gere

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on