Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

Eddie Vedder

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Edgar Allan Poe

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

Aeschylus

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

Abraham Cowley

To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.

Catherine Jinks

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

Jason Williams

My influences are Priest Holmes and Walter Payton,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

Laurie R. King

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

Arthur Conan Doyle

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

Gertrude Stein

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I am disappointed that we were not able to find a way to reconcile the freedoms we hold so dear with the sanctity of the site.

Katrina Kaif

I will give my life to whoever in need, to any dear friend of mine.

Paolo Bettini

I found myself alone, so I preferred to attack. Ultimately I wasted a lot of energy and paid dearly for it in the end.

Joyce Smith

I lost two things dear to me this year. I lost my husband and I lost my house,

Doug Varone

I think it's insecurity, ... You have a need to see and touch someone you dearly love.

Nancy Bolin

It is so much fun and it is such a worthy cause. It is dear to my heart. It is a celebration.

Dave Morris

Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.

Evan Spiegel

Having been bullied growing up, it's something that's really near and dear to my heart. You probably won't have many friends on Snapchat if you're being a jerk.