Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amos Oz

When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.

Amy Carter

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

Anthony de Mello

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

Anna Kournikova

I hate my muscles. I'm not Venus Williams. I'm not Serena Williams, I don't want to look like they look.

Angela Lansbury

A sitcom. I hate that word.

Amy Goodman

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

Amy Chua

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

Anne Sexton

I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere....

Anne Rice

How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.

Anne Rice

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

Anita Bryant

I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

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.

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 hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.

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.

Abraham Lincoln

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

Anna Wintour

I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.

Anita Baker

When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.

Ani Difranco

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

Ani Difranco

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

Ani Difranco

I always feel I have to take a stand, And there's always someone on hand To hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

Ani Difranco

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Amy Ray

...and when I am negative, I will be negative only for as long as I have to be, until I can understand it, and then I will be positive...when I hate, I will turn my hatred into energy, when I am angry I will turn my anger into energy...and I will not be complacent.

Amy Lowell

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Amy Poehler

I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how "bossy" can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

Ally Carter

I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.