Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Carol Oates

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

John McAfee

History is sympathetic to its authors.

Soren Kierkegaard

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy....

Amy Fessler

We want them to think of it as their gym. That way, they'll grow up thinking exercise is fun, and not something you dread doing.

Douglas Coupland

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

John Howe

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Laurie Graham

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.

Lars Tiffany

We had a wonderful year last year. And ever since it ended we've been worried about that dreaded sophomore slump.

Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Michael Woods

Lots of women dread the thought of putting on a swimsuit after a long winter. If you haven't been working out, you're probably self-conscious about showing your body. Even when you're in good shape, you feel better about some spots than others.

Laura Linney

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

Tea Leoni

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

Barack Obama

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Louis Freeh

I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn't replace me.

Oscar Wilde

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

David Gilmour

I had a fantastic time. We hadn't played as Pink Floyd in 10 years and hadn't played with Roger in 25. The main thing was obviously the cause, but I was also pleased to get some of that personal, trivial antipathy that's been part of our lives for so long and pack that away. For several days, Roger and I went out together. I'm very pleased that we're now at a point where we can talk.