Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paddy Chayefsky

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

Pablo Neruda

I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you.

Pablo Neruda

Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.

Plato

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Plato

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.....

Plato

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

Philip Wylie

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Philip Treacy

A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.

Philip Treacy

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

Philip Treacy

How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.

Philip Treacy

You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.

Leonardo da Vinci

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

Lee Ann Womack

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

Lee Child

I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

LeBron James

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

Philip Sidney

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Philip Roth

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

Philip Guston

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing, what I really hate yet I have to go through with it, is the preparation.

Philip James Bailey

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

Peyton Manning

Boy, do I hate to lose.

Peter Cushing

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

Peter Cushing

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

Peter Dinklage

I hate that word - 'lucky' ...

Peter Dinklage

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

Peter De Vries

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

Peter De Vries

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Peter Andre

I hate feet, they're disgusting! What are they even for?

Penn Jillette

I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.

Penn Jillette

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

Penn Jillette

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

Penn Jillette

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

Penn Jillette

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?