Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Carol Shields

The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

C. S. Lewis

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

Alan Ladd

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

Charles Caleb Colton

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Charles Dickens

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

Charles Studd

Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

Bram Stoker

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

Darren Shan

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Billy Sunday

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Colley Cibber

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Dick Francis

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Cillian Murphy

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

David Ogilvy

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Amy Vanderbilt

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Lillian Gish

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Bret Easton Ellis

Price. You're priceless.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Amanda Seyfried

Life experience is priceless.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Many priceless things can be bought.

Lech Walesa

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Darren Benitez

I had some songs in that I had wrote, you know, priceless to me.

Isaac Marion

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

Ezra Taft Benson

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

Lori Greiner

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.