Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

Edward Said

Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality.

Arthur Koestler

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Edward Abbey

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

Adolf Hitler

I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.

Courtney Love

I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

E. O. Wilson

The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured--especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

Damien Rice

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

Douglas Coupland

After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.

Tom Russell

It can be a real nightmare for people. It's a minefield out there. A lot of what's sold today is plain junk.

Alfred Hitchcock

Give them pleasure the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare

Alain de Botton

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

Barbara Mikulski

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Brent Spiner

Well, I think there are other shows where it's a nightmare every day to come to work.

Ken Crump

Marist was a nightmare (last year). We wanted Marist (again), but you play who you have to.

Donald Trump

Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare.

Darren Shan

Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?

Byron Katie

There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.

Frank Miller

Or at least the ends justify being really mean!

Bill Cowher

Some of our tight ends have worked in that area.

Bethany Hamilton

The end...is just the beginning

Justin Gray

I want to win so bad. Sometimes it ends up with me trying to force shots and trying to make something happen for us as a team. I feel like if I won't do it, nobody else will.

Val Trujillo

Jason did all right, but he tries to overpower people and ends up falling behind. Then he puts one right over the plate, and they knock the hell out of it.

Aaron Small

That was huge; that play right there gives them their fourth run if they score it, and it ends an inning, ... Any time you make a play like that, in a game like this, it swings the momentum to the team that makes that play.

Manly Hall

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Bruce Cleveland

I think it would be safe to say that if that ends up being a more cost-effective way of deploying our on-demand applications, we'll pursue it.

Jason Brueschke

If Oracle wants to spend more money on lawyers, they should go ahead, but investors should be planning for a world where Oracle and PeopleSoft are separate, ... Unfortunately, the script of this movie ends with Oracle being disappointed.