Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Genet

When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at the illusion. But my shoulders are very frail. I was unable to bear the weight of the world's condemnation. And I began to hate you when everything about you would have kindled my love and when love would have made men's contempt unbearable, and their contempt would have made my love unbearable. The fact is, I hate you.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

Jill Soloway

I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.

Jill Soloway

Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate Jews? Or am I just being paranoid?

Jillian Michaels

Fitness and proper nutrition truly go hand-in-hand. Focus on eating clean and filling your plate with veggies, fruits, whole grains and lean proteins. And, everyone hates to do it, but calorie counting is crucial to weight loss as well as maintaining a healthy physique.

Jerry Falwell

I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.

Jerry Falwell

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

Jeremy Grantham

I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate.

Jennifer Carpenter

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.

Jeff Garlin

I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.

Jean Vanier

In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.

Jean Vanier

Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

Jerry Spinelli

Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. "I hate change," she said. "It's so . . . jangly." "Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said. "Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?

Jerry Spinelli

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Jerry Saltz

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

Jerry Seinfeld

Elaine: Ugh, I hate people. Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.

Jerry Seinfeld

I hate the waiting room. Because it's called the waiting room, there's no chance of not waiting. It's built, designed, and intended for waiting. Why would they take you right away when they've got this room all set up?

Jerome Lawrence

Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.

Jeffrey Kluger

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

Jennifer Lawrence

I guess my main worry is that people will start hating what I hate about myself. I worry that everyone will think I am really annoying and just want me to shut up. Which would make so much sense because I annoy myself... I guess I want people to know that if they are annoyed with me, I get it, it's totally cool. Please forgive me.

Jennifer Lawrence

I hate people who say, "Oh, I'm addicted to working out". I just want to punch those people in the face.

Jeff Cunningham

I think people fancy me. They can't figure me out. I'm an attractive guy. I make good money and I score goals. I'm the kind of guy I believe people love. And, at the same time, they can't figure out why they love me so much, so they decide to hate me.

Jeff Foxworthy

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

James Carville

[Hollywood] hates America.

James Caan

Unless I love something or hate it, I don't want to deal with it.

James Cameron

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

James A. Baldwin

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.

James A. Baldwin

Hatred destroys the person who hates.

James A. Baldwin

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.