Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Cecelia Ahern

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Bernard Arnault

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

Charles Darwin

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Blake Mycoskie

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Ben Gibbard

Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.

C. S. Lewis

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Milwaukee Brewers

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Daniel Sullivan

He is suffering a lot of psychological trauma that he doesn't know he is going through.

Al Gore

We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.

Greg Kutz

Orders were one of the key causes of the disputes and the problems.

John Olver

Our gasoline prices are hovering at $3 a gallon, and that causes a serious problem for a lot of our commerce and a lot of our families.

Sarah McCabe

Risk of not eating properly causes obesity and heart attacks. It can give you all kinds of health problems. Everyone needs to exercise and eat nutritional food.

Mark Hyman

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

Edwards Deming

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

Carl Sagan

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Ashley Tisdale

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

Stephen Flynn

It isn't the event but the sudden lack of faith in the system that it causes.

Gordon Brown

I welcome the Gates Foundation's announcement today. For far too long, world leaders have ignored the global tuberculosis epidemic, even as it causes millions of needless deaths each year.