Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan King

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

Charlotte Bronte

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

Charlotte Bronte

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Charles Dickens

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Charles Stross

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

Charles Spurgeon

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

Charles Spurgeon

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

C. S. Lewis

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste.

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Dick Van Dyke

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Agnes Smedley

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Charles Buxton

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

Dean Koontz

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

Tom Watson

Lots of bittersweet things have happened to me since Bruce's diagnosis in January. The bitterness is that there's nothing to hang on to. Your hope is to find an island before you run out of time.

Todd Solondz

Many people think my movies come out of the deepest feelings of bitterness and cynicism and hostility and not out of any positive feelings at all.

Dan Boone

She was rescued by her neighbors and hospitalized. Friends accompanied her during surgery and contributed blood. Her recovery took several months. She didn't let bitterness hold her back. She resumed teaching and studying international affairs.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Byron Motley

(My dad) had a great time (umpiring). He lived through a lot. He lived through the woes of segregation, and there's not a drop of bitterness from him or the other men I've interviewed throughout the years.

Mark Richard

My first thought was that in some way, I needed to bring honor to God through this situation and not show any bitterness because that would not help my children at all,