Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

Aaron Swartz

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Charlie Chaplin

What a sad business is being funny!

Charles Dickens

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

David Rakoff

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Byron Katie

All sadness is a tantrum.

Bryan Adams

When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.

Charles Spurgeon

God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

Al Stewart

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

Agnes Martin

It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution

Alan Shepard

I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Brian Lara

We are looking forward to the World Cup also. We hope the big event would do a lot of good for the cricket at grass roots level.

Michael Vaughan

We haven't been to the sub-continent and won yet. If we play good cricket over there, I'm sure the rankings will change.

Greg Chappell

We won't have a long duration camp. We had lot of cricket over the last few months. So, we will probably get together only the day before we leave for Pakistan.

Andrew Flintoff

Simply because he encourages you to enjoy cricket without fear of failure.

Clive Lloyd

potentially the single greatest private sector investment in cricket since the Kerry Packer revolution 28 years ago.

Bob Woolmer

But as he walks away he can be proud that many people all around the world are sad to see him go - cricket will be poorer without him.

Trond Nystad

No one understands cross country; no one is interested in the U.S.. Sponsorship and recognition are hard to get. It's like cricket in Norway.

Bob Woolmer

Now that's too much cricket but I can't help it.

Lleyton Hewitt

I don't think it should be too bad. I've seen back home in cricket, you have the third umpire for run-outs, stuff like that. It all happens pretty quickly.