Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Rzeznik

There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me

John Ruskin

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

John Steinbeck

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

John Steinbeck

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

John Steinbeck

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

John Steinbeck

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

John Steinbeck

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

John Steinbeck

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

John Steinbeck

Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.

John Steinbeck

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

John Singer Sargent

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.

John Slattery

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

John Sayles

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

John Sayles

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

Martin Luther

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.

Martin Luther

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

Martin Luther

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

Martin Luther

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

Martin Luther

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.

Martin Luther

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

Martin Luther

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you

Mark Steyn

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

Marilyn French

All men are rapists and that's all they are

Marilyn French

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Nicole Kidman

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

Nick Cave

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

Nancy Gibbs

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Sherman Alexie

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

Seth Grahame-Smith

Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.

Seth MacFarlane

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

Seth MacFarlane

'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

Seth Rogen

There was, like, a week straight of shooting, where, like, all I did was shoot a machine gun. And I hate to - every - it went against all my Jewish and Canadian instincts, but I enjoyed every second of it.

Sebastian Horsley

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.