Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niger Innis

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.

Daniel Gillies

We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.

Charles Spurgeon

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

Michael Leunig

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.

Hub Hubbell

No horses this time. I'm going to talk about the hardships on the trail.

Nizar Hamdoon

I don't think it will be sufficient but it will be significant in alleviating some of the hardships of the Iraqi people.

Barbara Castle

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

Pamela Walsh

He will support the waiver if it includes a hardship provision.

Abdu'l Baha

Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Janice Dickinson

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

Britney Spears

The best thing about being cheated on is I get to go on more first dates.

Barbara Kingsolver

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

Jane Hirshfield

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

Carl Jung

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

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.