Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

It was very funny. It was agony for him when it was 'stolen' from the yard. Women think it's so cruel. Guys think it's hilarious. It's a guy thing I guess.

What avails love when life is so ephemeral? What avaiIs a mortals love for the immortal? Love that is snuffed out by deaths passing blast Love without the pain, the passion that consumes? A flickering spark I am, aglow for a fleeting glance Flow vain for a flickering spark to chase an eternal flame! Grant me the bliss of eternal life, O Lord, And mine will be the ecstasy of eternal love. Give me the pleasure of an everlasting pain An agony that lacerates my soul for ever.

The agony that we went through needed to be redeemed, and needed to be recompensed, and that did occur and we're very happy that this part is over.

Joshua Logan

The aggravated agony of depression is terrifying, and elation, its nonidentical twin sister, is even more terrifying-attractive as she may be for a moment. You are grandiose beyond the reality of your creativity.

Jessie Pavelka

I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.

In 365 days he went from agony to the thrill of victory. He learned to handle the pressure, which is something he didn't do last year. That's a very hard thing for a kid to do. It was a lesson well-learned.

Frank Herbert

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

H. P. Lovecraft

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

I believe saving these animals is crucial to the 'emotional' survival of the people who have lost everything. We desperately need everyone's help to buy supplies to find, transport, house, feed, care for and locate the owners of these helpless, starving animals. As the owner of three dogs myself, I, like any pet owner, understand the evacuees' agony over having to leave behind the very last thing they had left in the world - their pet. Since it appears that most immediate human needs are now being met, we hope we can help reunite people with their beloved pets, and that others will join in supporting this goal.

Terry Gilliam

Heath is not a public kind of guy and this has been rough for him. He has had to go on Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno. This is just agony for him.

Jack Kevorkian

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

It's a blizzard of emotions -- ecstasy and also agony that we had to go through this to start with,

Louise Bogan

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

Quentin Crisp

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

Elizabeth Gaskell

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Louis Agassiz

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

Lisa Kleypas

I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.

Joyce Meyer

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Josephine Hart

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

John L. Lewis

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

Julie Burchill

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

Martin Heidegger

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Neal A. Maxwell

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What does this Daimon look like? (Xedrix) He’s tall and blond. (Kyle) Well, that narrows it down to every Daimon here except Stryker. What would that be? Several thousand of them? Could you be a bit more specific and if you tell me he was dressed in black, I’ll kill you myself and spare me the agony of dying. (Xedrix)

Philip Sidney

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

Kin Hubbard

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

John Ruskin

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.

Lance Loud

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.