Famous Quotes & Sayings

Archibald MacLeish

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Barbara Johnson

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

Barbara Kingsolver

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

We regret and hate to lose an industry of that caliber.

Bashar al-Assad

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

Baruch Spinoza

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...

Barbara Park

Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?

Augusten Burroughs

If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.

Augusten Burroughs

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Augusten Burroughs

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

Aziz Ansari

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

Aziz Ansari

Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.

Ayelet Waldman

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

Charles Bukowski

I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.

Charles Bukowski

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

Charles Bukowski

sometimes I hate you," she said.

Charles Bukowski

hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.

Charles Bukowski

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

Charles Bukowski

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Sydney Smith

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

Edward Abbey

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

Edward Abbey

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

Edward Abbey

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Edward Abbey

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.

Eddie Redmayne

In England we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

Eddie Redmayne

Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.

Aubrey Plaza

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

Aubrey Plaza

I'm like that person who hates going to magic shows - and I love magic, I love wizards - but going to a show where there is any possibility of audience participation is a nightmare for me.

Aristotle

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Ben Hogan

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

Ben Jonson

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

Ben Jonson

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.