Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune was my god.

Anne Frank

Misfortunes never come singly.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

Louisa May Alcott

Everybody has their days of misfortune.

Pierre Corneille

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

John Dryden

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

Tom Stoppard

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

Robin Clifford

Personnel belonging to either of these categories who remain in Kosovo after midnight tonight will be subject to robust KFOR enforcement,

Elizabeth Bibesco

The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?

Henry Bates

There are many large houses on this river belonging to what were formerly large and flourishing plantations, but which, since the Revolution of 1835-6, had been suffered to go to decay.

Marilyn Monroe

Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Eartha Kitt

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

Susan Lieberman

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.

David Blunkett

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.