Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Bellamy

We stand at an historic moment in the struggle to end the anguish that these weapons have already inflicted on tens of thousands of the world's children, their families and their communities,

Unfortunately, New Yorkers know firsthand the anguish associated with such a horrific disaster, but we also know there is great strength and generosity from so many willing to help those in need. As we have proved in the past, we are a resilient and determined country. It is the Yankees' hope -- and expectation -- that the best fans in the world will follow the lead of so many others in giving of themselves at a time when so much is needed.

Laura Bush

made extraordinary efforts to make sure that the children who have been upset by this hurricane are able to find some comfort and some solace in the midst of their anguish by being able to go to a school.

We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Shirley Manson

People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.

Dan Glickman

Nobody was happy with the meeting, ... Nobody's coming out of there with anything in their hearts except that the president has extreme anguish about this and is going to work to ensure that his life is going to be lived in a way that this is not repeated, ever.

I have a message for the cowards. There is no place you can hide. There is no place safe for you. The loss and anguish you caused this community will never be forgotten.

Celia Johnson

I found a face of anguish greeting me.

We understand the family's anguish in this horrible case. We are restrained, however, from commenting about plea bargains until they are announced in court.

Breyten Breytenbach

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.

Rafael Palmeiro

I was careless, ... I'm sorry that I caused all that pain and anguish to my teammates, the Orioles, my fans and my family.

Hilary Mantel

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.

Jaswant Singh

The government shares the anguish expressed in the motion, ... we should pass the motion unanimously and work together to meet the challenges.

Katherine Harris

While passage of this legislation will do nothing to bring back Carlie Brucia and other children who have been brutally murdered by predators, it can save other families the anguish of losing a child to the most unthinkable of violent acts,

Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.

We don't want to cause any anguish on the part of the mother especially.

Jury verdicts became highly suspect and were frequently overturned for a variety of ever-expanding reasons, ... Jury assessments were wiped out by increasingly harsher standards for mental anguish and punitive standards.

preyed upon elderly males by telling them tall tales of anguish and woe and promises of romance.

Mario Testino

A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.

William Faulkner

And that's how the book grew. That is, I wrote that same story four times. None of them were right, but I had anguished so much that I could not throw any of it away and start over, so I printed it in the four sections. That was not a deliberate tour de force at all, the book just grew that way. That I was still trying to tell one story which moved me very much and each time I failed, but I had put so much anguish into it that I couldn't throw it away, like the mother that had four bad children, that she would have been better off if they all had been eliminated, But she couldn't relinquish any of them. And that's the reason I have the most tenderness for that book, because it failed four times.

During the past week, we have all anguished over the suffering that Hurricane Katrina has brought on in the Gulf Coast, and particularly New Orleans. There are countless thousands of families who have lost everything as a result of this natural disaster. In an unprecedented crisis like this, it is more important than ever that relief agencies, like the Red Cross, have the resources they need to undertake this massive effort.

At this moment, all of us share the pain and anguish of this terrible event. We are devastated.

There were a lot of anguished cries from people in North Carolina after Floyd that they weren't in flood plains and yet they were flooded.

Dag Hammarskjold

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

It was the toughest decision I've ever made. It took a lot of thought, anguish and tears.

The family desired that the matter be resolved without a trial. There's been enough trauma, misery and anguish already.

Roy Barnes

If you dislike the process, take it out on me. I am fair game. But don't put our people to anguish because of something that is not their fault.

Gov. Rell also does not want any family to have to go through the same anguish that Mr. Juan and his family have been through in the past month.

I am pleased that this money is being returned to the victims. This may help them recover from the financial anguish, but the mental anguish may never be undone.

Michaelle Jean

I once was a little girl who saw her father strike her mother. My younger sister and I lived with the anguish that all children feel when the family unit breaks down.

I really anguished over this a long time. I didn't want to throw something out there haphazardly just to make it a hurricane and set another record.