Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Tan

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

Ami Ayalon

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

Aminatta Forna

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

Amin Maalouf

let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.

Amitabh Bachchan

If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.

Amiri Baraka

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

Anthony Burgess

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

Anthony Bourdain

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

Alex Ebert

I think the most important thing to remember is that pain passes. And artistically, the pain is going to pass. It's what you want to express out of the pain as opposed to indulging in the agony-and-pain mantra of songwriting that became such a hit in the '90s and still, all the way up to now.

Alex Ebert

My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.

Samuel Butler

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Alan Cohen

One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

Alan Cohen

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

Alan Cohen

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

Alan Cohen

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The pain is temporary, the film is forever

In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as though they perished. But now that the Savior has raised his body, death is no longer terrible; for all who believe in Christ trample on it as it were nothing and choose rather to die than deny their faith in Christ. And that devil that once maliciously exulted in death, now that its pains were loosed, remained the only one truly dead.

Everyone of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Everyone knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.

We're not going to come out of this without some pain.

Hannah Arendt

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

We send volunteers to paint over graffiti, but it bogs down when you have to go through a property manager.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Persis Khambatta

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Damien Hirst

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

William Shakespeare

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

William Shakespeare

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Alexander Pushkin

I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.

Aberjhani

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Aberjhani

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.