Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

J. K. Rowling

But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. "You shall go now," he said fiercely, pointing down at Mr. Malfoy. "You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now.

H. L. Mencken

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

H. L. Mencken

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain,

H. L. Mencken

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

Gunnar Myrdal

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

Grace Paley

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Grace Paley

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

George Herbert

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

George Herbert

They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.

George Herbert

There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.

George Herbert

Long jesting was never good.

George Herbert

Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

George Herbert

He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.

Georg Buchner

That is a long word: forever!

Geoffrey Zakarian

I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

Gene Luen Yang

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

Gene Fowler

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

Gary L. Francione

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

Gary Hamel

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Jerry Brown

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Jerry Bridges

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

Jeanne Moreau

I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

Jeanne Moreau

As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.

Jeanne Moreau

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Jean Moulin

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.