Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Charlie Munger

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Edward Abbey

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

Benjamin Franklin

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

Benjamin Franklin

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

William Shakespeare

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

William Shakespeare

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

William Shakespeare

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

Emmanuelle Vaugier

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

Charles Baudelaire

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

Michael Todd

We've always been into horror movies. The Nightmare on Elm Street films, I've seen a million times. We watch a wide variety of horror movies. Travis just has a huge folder of them on the bus.

Jane Goldman

I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.

Carolyn Maloney

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

Dean Koontz

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

William Shakespeare

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

Bela Lugosi

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

Bong Joon-ho

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Elliott Abrams

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

Martin Freeman

There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.

Eckhart Tolle

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

Eckhart Tolle

Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

Max Heindel

It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction.

Deepak Chopra

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Deepak Chopra

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.