Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Sullivan

[Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.

Andrew Solomon

I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

Andrew Denton

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Andrew Davies

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.

Andrew Dice Clay

I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, 'I hate the rich.' From what I witnessed after living there for 15 years, these people just don't raise their kids. I used to see the lineup of cars in front of the schools and it was all the nannies.

Ambrose Bierce

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

Ambrose Bierce

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

Anthony Horowitz

If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

Anthony Kiedis

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Alicia Keys

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

Alice Walker

There is no graceful way to carry hatred.

Alice Munro

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Alice Childress

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

Alice Duer Miller

People love to talk but hate to listen.

Alice Duer Miller

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action ...

You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Anne Lamott

And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'

Anne Lamott

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

Anne Lamott

You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.

Anne Lamott

I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said that you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)

Anne Lamott

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Ana Gasteyer

Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the challenge is always to find a cool and innovative way to do it and, obviously, to not repeat your jokes.

Amanda Bynes

Yes! I'm also a big fan of the movie '10 Things I Hate About You,' which was also based on Shakespeare.

Amanda Bynes

I am very needy for friendship and I hate men. I want to f--- them, but I can now say I’m engaged — get away from me,

Amanda Bynes

I love making people who already hate me hate me more.

Aesop

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

Aeschylus

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Aeschylus

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

Alexander McQueen

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

Alexander Pope

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.