Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

Carlos Castaneda

"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

C. S. Lewis

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

C. S. Lewis

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

Nick Brown

When you're young, you recover fast. I can take a lot of pain.

Agnes Repplier

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

Charlotte Bronte

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Bertolt Brecht

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

Charles Spurgeon

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

Eike Batista

Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

Billy Collins

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Doug Stanhope

I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny.

Crispin Glover

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

Amanda Beard

I know that I do deserve good things.

Alex Rodriguez

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.