Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Patterson

There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have to hire prizefighters to do their hating for them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates.

Forest Whitaker

There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Love me or hate me...you're gonna watch me.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

Fran Lebowitz

The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors. I feel it's very embarrassing. Because, you know, they're right there. You always think like, they can see you, and I think it's mortifying, frankly, and I hate to sit near the front, where you feel they actually might see you. It's too ... it's too live.

Fran Lebowitz

I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.

Fran Lebowitz

I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.

Fran Lebowitz

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

Fran Lebowitz

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

George Washington Carver

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you will have no fear from those who hate you. ... David, though small, was filled with truth, right thinking and good will for others. Goliath represents one who let fear into his heart, and it stayed there long enough to grow into hate for others.

George Washington Carver

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

George W. Bush

The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope -- an ideology of hate -- excuse me --with an ideology of hope.

George Santayana

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

George Santayana

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

George Santayana

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

George Santayana

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

George McGovern

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

George Orwell

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

Friedrich Nietzsche

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Friedrich Nietzsche

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

Franklin P. Adams

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

Frantz Fanon

Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.

Frantz Fanon

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

Franz Grillparzer

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Jeanette Winterson

I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?