Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Bacall

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

Lauren Bacall

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

Laurell K. Hamilton

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.

Laurell K. Hamilton

We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.

Laurell K. Hamilton

To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.

Langston Hughes

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.

John Kehoe

If we work for social change - and it is good to do such things - let us always do it with an awakened heart big enough for all. There is no enemy; there is only ignorance. There is no one to hate, only many to love.

John Keats

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

John Keats

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

John D. Voelker

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

John Chaney

As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.

Gayle Forman

Hate me. Devastate me. Annihilate me. Re-create me. Re-create me. Won't you, won't you won't you re-create me.

Gayle Forman

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

Gayle Forman

You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

Gayle Forman

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

Lloyd Kaufman

The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

Lloyd Kaufman

The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.

Lynda Barry

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

Lynda Barry

In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.

Lyndon B. Johnson

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

Luke Evans

I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!

Ludwig Borne

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

Ludivine Sagnier

I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

Lucas Till

I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.

Louis C. K.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

Louis D. Brandeis

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.