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

Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Anthony Fauci

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Cindy Gallop

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Andrzej Wajda

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

Ian Wilmut

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

Frederick Wiseman

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.

Terence McKenna

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

Paulo Freire

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.