Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lloyd George

Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

Don Herold

I say, let's banish bridge. Let's find some pleasant way of being miserable together.

Ed McBain

He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to banish fear. And he sees it at its worst, as the result of violent emotions bursting into the mind and erupting from the hands.

William A. Ward

Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!This bright new year is given meTo live each day with zest . . .To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!

Mariella Frostrup

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

Joan Lefkow

I'm the wife who wakes up in the morning, not to a cup of coffee presented by my husband of 30 years to reopen what we called the 'endless conversation of marriage,' but to an open book that I was reading, in an effort to banish the memories of 5:30 p.m. on the day our world changed forever,

Kevin Barry

I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish greys and drizzle. I love the cities of the Spanish interior.

Ed Asner

The interns recommended a new, Survivor format for news anchors. Every week viewers can vote to banish a news reporter off to 60 Minutes, 48 hours, or some other pseudo-news program. The one who's left will be our new anchor.

William Shakespeare

What is more miserable than discontent?

Benny Hill

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

Russ Moore

We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day.

Al Yankovic

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Edward Abbey

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

Robert Holden

Many people are out without shelter. It was miserable to start with but with this things are only going to get worse.

Carl Jung

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

Brendan Behan

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Ben Okri

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Caryl Chessman

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Charles Spurgeon

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Dan Hartleb

He is so successful because he's such a competitor. I can't say I'm surprised he's doing this, but it's pleasant to see.

Richard Lies

I was pleasantly surprised after about the first day or two. I could see that it was going to go just fine.

Dave Beeler

I was actually pleasantly surprised with how well we did (in cold, wet conditions).

David Graham

On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.

Dr. Seuss

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!