Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Asimov

To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

Jean Paul

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

Jim Boeheim

I'm not Derek Jeter, there will be no farewell tour.

George Washington

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Gene Simmons

We don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.

Hugh Downs

If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

Garry Kasparov

The scale of the man to whom we are bidding farewell today in no way corresponds to the paltry scale of today's authorities.

The fare is too high. Most of the devotees who wanted to visit the shrine would not be in a position to pay this amount.

It's probably a tricky one for Freddy because it's really his constituents that are the most hurt by a fare hike.

I'm excited. It will be new, tough competition. I think we'll fare well. We have a strong team and a good group of kids.

T. S. Eliot

Not fare well, / But fare forward, voyagers.

Cassandra Clare

You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.

Eva Braun

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

Itzhak Perlman

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

Jessamyn West

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Ian Mcewan

I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.

Isadora Duncan

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

If there are players that play wondering how they will fare in the Majors, we will lose.

J. G. Ballard

Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

The verdict's still out. We've been in the playoffs the last two years and didn't fare well, so I think everybody's going to be in a rush to judge. But all we do is get paid to win games around here, and so far this year, we've been able to win 13.

It's official - the first fare hike of 2002 is a bust.

Paulo Coelho

With every farewell comes a hidden hope.

R. A. Salvatore

Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

George MacDonald

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

John Bunyan

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

Peter S. Beagle

Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

Haruki Murakami

So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

John Dryden

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

John Keats

I always made an awkward bow.