Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

Charles Caleb Colton

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Spurgeon

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

Alan Pardew

The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.

Charles Lyell

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Allen Ginsberg

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

Allen Ginsberg

Inside skull vast as outside skull

Annie Dillard

The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I myself was one such item...the things in the world did not necessarily cause my overwhelming feelings; the feelings were inside me, beneath my skin, behind my ribs, withing my skull. They were even, to some extent, under my control.

David Bailey

The skull is nature's sculpture.

Donna Tartt

If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.

Christopher Moore

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

Miranda Raison

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

Malcolm Sharp

He was descending from 8,000 to 7,000 feet when the engine conked out.

Todd Musburger

Doctors refer to the left anterior descending artery as the widow maker. It was about 90 percent blocked. He needed to get this done much sooner than later. I talked to him today and he was in good spirits. He'll be fine.

Charles Godfrey Leland

They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.

Yajur Veda

Herbs (medicines),while descending down from heaven to earth proclaimed those who eat us, are never destroyed.

Yajur Veda

Herbs (medicines),while descending down from heaven to earth proclaimed those who eat us, are never destroyed.