Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

William James

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

Will Ferrell

In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.

Will Ferrell

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Sarah Rees Brennan

When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.

Sarah Silverman

I got jury duty ... and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." And who doesn't?

Sarah Silverman

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!

Sarah Bernhardt

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.

William Faulkner

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

William Faulkner

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

William Faulkner

I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself.

William Faulkner

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

William Faulkner

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

William Faulkner

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

Warren Mitchell

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

Warren G. Harding

I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesn’t mean to be, he just is. He’s methodic, scientific, capable, and so competent it makes me envious. I was climbing with some hotshot Brit in Yosemite once, and he said, ‘My God, Harding, you can’t do anything!’ I said, ‘I know, but I can do it forever.’

Ronald Reagan

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.

Saint Francis de Sales

Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord's way, and do not torment yourself. We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.

Saint Augustine

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

Wiz Khalifa

Them haters in your face you just ignore them. Don't know what they talking sh-t for.

Wiz Khalifa

Can't keep up, you haters too slow.

Wiz Khalifa

I hear them n-ggas talkin sh-t, but there ain't that much that they can do.

Wiz Khalifa

The haters can't see me, the money's in the way like traffic.

Wiz Khalifa

You can talk sh-t b-ch, I'm worth a million.

Winston Churchill

I love learning, but hate being taught.

Wilson Mizner

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

William Watson

We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.

William Taylor

The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

William Taylor

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.

Will Rogers

Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.