Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elaine Sciolino

Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'

Lynn Jurich

For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them.

Jane Austen

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Charles Lamb

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Herbert A. Simon

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

Benjamin Hoff

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Edward Gibbon

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

Ben Kugler

She had a personal attachment to it like you wouldn't believe.

Edgar Allan Poe

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Louis C. K.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Caitlin Moran

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

William Shakespeare

Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,Since riches point to misery and contempt?

Dear Abbey

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

D. James

I thought well, why not? At least we'll have someone to talk to if we have pain or misery or whatever. Someone that you're comfortable with makes a lot of difference.

Carrie Vaughn

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

Jane Austen

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

William Shakespeare

What is more miserable than discontent?

Ben Okri

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Brendan Behan

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Benny Hill

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

Edward Abbey

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

Robert Holden

Many people are out without shelter. It was miserable to start with but with this things are only going to get worse.

Billy Collins

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

Russ Moore

We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day.