Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Charles Caleb Colton

If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

Charles Caleb Colton

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

Charles Dickens

On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?

Charles Stanley

Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.

Bruce Barton

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

Ann Landers

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

Albert Einstein

The field is the sole influence of the particle.

A. E. Waite

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

Bobby Darin

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

Faith Ford

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

Grant Bowler

Mind your own business.

Michelle Obama

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

Seth Godin

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

David Cross

Florida was the low point.The entire state, yep. I'm not sure I'd go back.

Gil Scott-Heron

I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.

George Herbert

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

Ian Mcewan

Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there.

Lou Reed

I'm still not sure I didn't die

John Lennon

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm not sure I know what "normal" is.

John Bolton

I'm not sure history has ended.

Robin Wright

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do