Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Carol Shields

The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

C. S. Lewis

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

Alan Ladd

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

Charles Caleb Colton

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Charles Dickens

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

Charles Studd

Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

Bram Stoker

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

Darren Shan

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Dean Koontz

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Bethenny Frankel

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

Gwen Stefani

I have learned to delegate.

Henry A. Kissinger

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

Henry David Thoreau

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

Oliver Cromwell

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

Emily Giffin

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

Philippa Gregory

I have learned the power of surviving.

Terry Tempest Williams

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

Rosemarie Truglio

We didn't go into this in an impulsive way.

Richard Barrett

He wants to have more impulsive activities. We are more methodical in how we do things.

Neil Strauss

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

Fidel Castro

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.