Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Rennison

i will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

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.

M. Scott Peck

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

Scott Turow

You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.

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

Martin Heidegger

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Germaine Greer

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

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

Edith Hamilton

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

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.

Rick Riordan

Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!" "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus. "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests Horus.

Rob Sheffield

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

Robert E. Howard

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

Yann Martel

For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.