Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Popenoe

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

Catherine Helen Spence

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Beyonce Knowles

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

William Shakespeare

There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

Djuna Barnes

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

Steve Hoedt

We're looking at a target price on this of $30 and that's right in the neighborhood of where it's at now. It's possible that you could get a little more upside from it, but if you look at the businesses on a cash-flow valuation basis, a breakup wouldn't create that much more value than what we've seen.

Alanis Morissette

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

John Putnam

The reality is, J&J probably doesn't care, ... It has the money to pay whatever breakup fee is involved. I don't see somebody else walking in here and picking up Guidant.

Charles Dickens

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Charles Dickens

Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.

Charles Stross

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Alanis Morissette

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.

Alan Chambers

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

Chris Colfer

People still call me ma’am on the phone, and it’s just part of life now. I’m not even phased by it… Going through DriveThrus is always fun, because it’s always so shocking when they see me. It’d just be kind of like, ‘Thank you ma… woah!! Woah, sorry about that!’

Chris Colfer

There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.

Chris Christie

When you're exonerated, then the people who wrongly accused you should have the guts to stand up and say, "I'm sorry."

Chris Bosh

There were hard days but I never felt sorry for myself.

Charles Spurgeon

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

Alan Greenspan

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

David R. Brower

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

Catherine Crier

Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.

William Shakespeare

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

Beware the ides of March.

William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

William Shakespeare

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Kurt Vonnegut

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.