Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. Somerset Maugham

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

Willa Cather

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

Willa Cather

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

Will Smith

I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

Will Smith

10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.

Warren Beatty

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

Vivienne Westwood

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

Vladimir Lenin

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

Walter Cunningham

I'm here to encourage everyone to look at the data themselves, not just buy what they're told. I find that my standards for science are more important to me than anything else, and I hate to see them being depreciated by the alarmists' claims today. Politics and the media and what have you have allowed us now to be facing one of the biggest scientific hoaxes in history. That's what's being pushed on us.

Virginia Woolf

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred...

Virginia Woolf

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

Virginia Woolf

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

Virginia Woolf

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

William Blake

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

William Blake

The Vision of Christ that thou dost see, Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks in Parables to the blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates, Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.

William Blake

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Wayne White

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

Wayne Rooney

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.

Wallis Simpson

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

Walker Percy

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

Walker Percy

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

Samuel Fuller

I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.

Samuel Fuller

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

Samuel Butler

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Samuel Goldwyn

I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.

Salman Rushdie

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

Salman Rushdie

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

Salman Rushdie

Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge of destruction, theirs would still be the only side to be on; defeated love would still be love, hate's victory would not make it other than it was.

Salman Rushdie

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

Ryan Sheckler

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

Wendy O. Williams

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

Ward Churchill

Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from the government you purport to hate?

Wanda Sykes

L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.