Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Meacham

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Jon Meacham

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

Jon Gruden

You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.

Jon Foreman

Darkness cannot cast out darkness. You need a light for that. Fear cannot cast out fear. You're gonna need hope for that death warrants more death. But I believe life wants more life and I'm convinced that the greatest weapon we've got is LOVE! And maybe, in a world full of fighters, in a world imploding with hate, maybe to be a lover, you gotta be a fighter. Maybe that's the biggest fight, the only fight worth fighting, the fight you're gonna be in for the rest of your life.

Jon Bon Jovi

I like progress but I hate change.

Jon Bon Jovi

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

Johnny Thunders

Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it.

Johnny Vegas

I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.

Johnny Carson

As for being sociable, I hate the phoniness in the showbiz world. I know this will be taken wrong, but I don't like clubs and organizations. I was never a joiner.

Luc Ferrari

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

Luc de Clapiers

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

Luc de Clapiers

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

Lord Chesterfield

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Lord Byron

Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

John Ciardi

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

John Brunner

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

John Buchan

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

John Barrymore

Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.

Lupe Fiasco

When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

Louise Brown

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

John Boyne

There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will forever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

John Archibald Wheeler

To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.

Orson Scott Card

When you really know someone, you can't hate him.

Orson Scott Card

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

Paul Theroux

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

Marcia Gay Harden

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

Sonakshi Sinha

I am the kind of person who hates the gym. I am allergic to the gym. I want to run away from it.

Trevor Noah

The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to get to know you as quickly as possible, because you're now taking the place of somebody that they love dearly, or somebody that they hate sincerely, and so they need to know who you are.

It's disgusting. Racism and its hateful language have no place in this community.

Sophocles

Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.

Sophocles

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Sophocles

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.