Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Millard Fillmore

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Bill Belichick

Jon has a legitimate detest or hatred for defense. He takes it very personally.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Wandering around the mall and giggling at magazines doesn't interest me. I've never enjoyed shopping. I detest shoes.

Dedrick L.

There is nothing I detest more than an algebraic word problem.

Stephen Stills

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.

Joan Caulfield

I'm not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf.

J. K. Rowling

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Ken Livingstone

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect. These guys are awesome. This is a farm team.

Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

Erica Mann Jong

Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.

Jason Breiholz

Making it as far as he did was incredible, and getting there and winning one match is incredible with the top 16 in the state.

Mike Levine

Licensees have gone as far as they can go,

Don Mattingly

Looks like he's just starting to tune it up a little bit. Hideki, he's just so solid as far as his work. He never gets out of his program. His work is the same if he's going good or if he's going bad.

Victor Murphy

Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.

Charlie Brown

Last year was a record year for us as far as we can tell.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

Francis Bacon

Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.

Stephen Pope

From a strategic point of view, this sale allows them to narrow the spotlight on being a maker of premium cars. There was some haste to get this done and had they had more time and a relaxed schedule to get this done, they might have been able to get more for the business.

Elizabeth Bibesco

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Francis Bacon

Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner

St. Gregory The Great

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

William Shakespeare

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

William Shakespeare

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

William Shakespeare

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

Rich McKay

Seventy-six? Seventy-six was the longest 17 years of my life,

Sharon Taylor

Me and him are always in touch -- always in touch. This is the longest I have ever been without in touch with my son.

Bikram Choudhury

I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.

Gayle Davis

(Wednesday) night, our longest stop was about 20 minutes, ... Then we were able to open one lane.

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

Christine Benz

He has one of the longest records, he's more a pure quant investor, ... He's got a phenomenal record.

Pete Vasil

If someone told me they'd have 27 (by halftime), we'd take it. But we were stuck at 11 for the longest time.

Allyn Rachel

For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'

Damon Albarn

I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.