Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

Henry Ward Beecher

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Henry Hyde

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

Henry James

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Helen Thomas

Every President hates the Press.

Helen Thomas

I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'

Helena Bonham Carter

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

Joe Vitale

Your hate is an intense energy which will attract more of the same energy.

Joanne Froggatt

Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.

Joe Rogan

The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don't even realize it.

Joe Rogan

There's only 2 reasons that you hate gay marriage; 1. You're dumb, or 2. You're secretly worried that dicks are delicious.

Joe Elliott

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

Joan D. Vinge

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.

Joan Didion

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybe—if I go ahead and finish it anyway—I can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.

Joan Jett

At this point, a lot of people have made their mind up about me one way or another. I'm sure there's a certain segment of writers who won't ever give me the time of day, hate me, don't get me, don't think I'm good, or whatever. I guess that's fine. It's only an opinion. There are other people who do get it, and can be objective. I could be wrong, but a lot of people have made up their minds one way or the other.

Jimmy Breslin

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

Jimi Hendrix

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Eric Topol

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

Eric Stoltz

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

Eric Close

I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.

Emma Stone

That old question about whether, as a woman, you can be funny and attractive at the same time. Argh! I hate that question. Of course you can.

Emma Stone

The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.

Emma Stone

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

Emma Stone

The things that make you most mad about the world tend to be the things that you hate in yourself.

Emma Thompson

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Emma Goldman

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.