Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Updike

Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.

John Updike

...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

John Shelton Reed

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.

John Shelby Spong

Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another

John Shelby Spong

When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.

John Ridley

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

John Sayles

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

John Sayles

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

Martin Luther

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.

Martin Luther

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

Martin Luther

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

Martin Luther

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

Martin Luther

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.

Martin Luther

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

Martin Luther

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you

Mark Steyn

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

Marilyn French

All men are rapists and that's all they are

Marilyn French

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Nicole Kidman

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

Nick Cave

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

Nancy Gibbs

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

Philip Sidney

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Philip Roth

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

Philip Guston

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing, what I really hate yet I have to go through with it, is the preparation.

Philip James Bailey

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

Peyton Manning

Boy, do I hate to lose.

Peter Cushing

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

Peter Cushing

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

Peter Dinklage

I hate that word - 'lucky' ...

Peter Dinklage

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

Peter De Vries

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

Peter De Vries

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.