Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Oscar Wilde

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Mignon McLaughlin

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

George W. Bush

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Susan Sontag

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Charlotte Bronte

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

Charles E. Wilson

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

Charles Dickens

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Caleb Colton

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Don Cheadle

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

David Shore

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

David McCullough

We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

Dan Glickman

Without those services, the system will degrade over time.

Suzanne Somers

You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer.

Paul Bloom

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

Ken Bacon

We have not degraded it to that point. But we're only in the second day.

Ed Bond

What we're doing is to rehabilitate these lands. There is no evidence that clear-cuts degrade watercourses.

Booker T. Washington

I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Charleen Scott

Red-skinned potato salad? Seriously, could you degrade my people anymore?

Isabella Bird

The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.

David James

It is tragically ironic that while Lydia nests on one the world's most remote and pristine islands, she makes her living in some of the most degraded seas on the planet. Fishing pressure is huge and marine pollution is severe.