Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwidge Danticat

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

Edward Young

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

Edmund Hillary

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

Edmund Burke

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Edmund Burke

A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Edmund Burke

Dangers by being despised grow great.

Eckhart Tolle

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

Elie Wiesel

Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

Elie Wiesel

One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

Elie Wiesel

Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

Elie Wiesel

I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.

Edward Snowden

When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.

Conan O'Brien

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

Conan O'Brien

As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain. Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In those situations, the correct response to, 'Where did you go to school?' is 'School? I never had much in the way of book learnin' and such.' And then get in your BMW and get the hell out of there.

Conan O'Brien

Spread your hate. It'll last a lifetime.

E. W. Howe

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

Coventry Patmore

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.

George R. R. Martin

I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Joan Rivers

I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

Anne Lamott

I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

Anne Lamott

I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts." I hate that." I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away.

Andy Milonakis

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.

Andy Richter

I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

Andy Partridge

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

Alastair Campbell

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

Alber Elbaz

After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’

Alber Elbaz

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

Albert Ellis

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

Albert Ellis

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

Albert Ellis

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.