Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Lagana

People know when they take this job this could happen, because it's the nature of the contracting business, but it still hurts. We hate to see this happen. We hate to lose the work and we hate to lay off employees.

Harold Duarte-Bernhardt

People never hate you! They just dont like themselves in your presence.

Joseph Conrad

Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all saving instincts, of all faith, of all devotion, of all action.

Bruce Fein

plant the seeds of racial separateness and of hatred in the law.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Patch smiled. “You come by your red hair naturally?” I stared at him. “I don’t have red hair.” “I hate to break it to you, but it’s red. I could light it on fire and it wouldn’t turn any redder.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.

Barry McGuire

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

Barry McGuire

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

Barry Lopez

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

B. F. Skinner

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

Bill Crawford

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

C. S. Lewis

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

C. S. Lewis

I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

Cecelia Ahern

Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.

Art Alexakis

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

Fred Funk

For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Charles Jencks

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

Janet Reno

represented the joy and the wonder of life itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

C. S. Lewis

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C. S. Lewis

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Cathy Rigby

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Kelsey Grammer

It is always a joy to be nominated,

Bill Vaughan

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

Mira Nair

That's the joy I have as a filmmaker, that's what I love to do. I'm very fortunate.

Jean Killy

It is not an obligation but a joy