Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Metheny

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

Paddy Considine

I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

Paddy Chayefsky

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

Pablo Neruda

I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you.

Pablo Neruda

Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.

Plato

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Plato

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.....

Plato

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

Philip Wylie

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Philip Treacy

You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.

Leonardo da Vinci

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

Lee Ann Womack

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

Lee Child

I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

LeBron James

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

Lauryn Hill

Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?

Laura Marling

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

Lance Morrow

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

Laini Taylor

So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every day. Everyone annoys me. If I'm like this now, what am I going to be like when I'm old?" "You'll be the mean old biddy who fires a BB gun at kids from her balcony." "Nah. BBs just rile 'em up. More like a crossbow. Or a bazooka.

Laini Taylor

It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.

Laini Taylor

Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.

Lisa Scottoline

Everybody hates lawyers, but they don't realize judges are just lawyers with a promotion. Think about it.

Lisa Kudrow

I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.

Johnny Cash

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

Johnny Cash

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

Johnny Depp

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

Johnny Depp

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

John Updike

Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.

John Updike

...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

John Shelton Reed

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.

John Shelby Spong

Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another

John Shelby Spong

When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.

John Ridley

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

James Howe

We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less. First we won't eat the food with the brown spots. Then we hate ourselves because we have our own brown spots—pimples or ears that are too big or legs that are too skinny.