Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

John Gay

I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.

John Flavel

Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!

John Fowles

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

John Fowles

If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.

John Flanagan

We're going to see Ragnak," Halt told him. "He's going to have to promise to free every slave who fights for Hallasholm." Will shook his head doubtfully. "He won't like that," he said. Halt turned and looked at him, a faint grin touching the corner of his mouth. He'll hate it," he agreed.

John F. Kennedy

All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.

Jonathan Maberry

Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.

Jonathan Lethem

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

Jonathan Lethem

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. And scissors - that's beyond the pale.

Jonathan Lethem

The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.

Jonathan Gold

As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.

Jonathan Jackson

I'd rather live forever in Heaven than a place where there's terrorism and hate.

Jonathan Franzen

I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read the book." Right? At least with non-fiction, you can kind of convey some information, and people can decide for themselves whether they want more of that kind of information. But with a novel, what am I going to do?

Jonathan Franzen

I hate that word dysfunction.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

Jonathan Davis

I want to hold a CD I didn't burn. I hate burnt CDs.

Jonathan Ames

Nothing wrong with changing your mind. That's a very unwaffling thing to say: "Nothing wrong..." Who am I to say that there's nothing wrong with it? Maybe something is wrong with changing your mind. Anyway, love is very, very difficult. I love. But probably because I hate myself on some deep, sick level, it makes loving difficult. But I do try

Jon Stewart

If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?

Jon Stewart

It's funny how everyone hates witch hunts... until they see a witch.

Jon Stewart

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

Jon Stewart

Oh press - must you spread hate? Can't you just stick to being wrong?

Jon Lester

I hate losing. I hate getting beat. Im not used to it.

Katha Pollitt

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

Kate Upton

I hate exercising self-control.

Katee Sackhoff

I hate horror movies, with a passion.

Kate Winslet

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

Justine Larbalestier

I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.

Justine Larbalestier

I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting.

Ovid

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

Ovid

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

Ovid

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

Otis Blackwell

I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.