Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hermann Hesse

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Brendan Behan

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

Joschka Fischer

We were horrified by the news of the bomb attack in Madrid this morning. This detestable act of terror that claimed so many victims fills us with deep sorrow and outrage.

Kurt Eichenwald

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.

Charles R. Jackson

I am beginning to loathe & detest all that Hollywood represents.

Bill Belichick

Jon has a legitimate detest or hatred for defense. He takes it very personally.

Tony Kushner

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

Marlon Brando

Kowalski was always right, and never afraid. He never wondered, he never doubted. His ego was very secure. And he had the kind of brutal agressiveness that I hate. I'm afraid of it. I detest the character. (his feelings about one of his most famous characters, Stanley Kowalski from 'A Streetcar Named Desire')

Italo Calvino

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

William Shakespeare

Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.

Akhenaton

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

George Eliot

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.

Louis C. K.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

Cesare Pavese

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

Camille Claudel

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

Camille Paglia

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

Cooper Farris

We're going to need to show more intensity than we have in the past. Co-Lin is a better team than Jones and the split with Pearl River shows that.

Thomas Carroll

We want to stop the run first and then force them into a passing game. I think that's what we did two years ago when we went up there in the rain. We stopped FSU tailback Greg Jones for 15 yards on 13 carries. That just lets you tee off on the quarterback.

Bobby Flay

The other person who inspired me was Jonathan Waxman, who used to own Jam's in New York City. He was the first person to show me what good food was.

Jimmy Langhurst

We stuck through. With Jon making all his shots we knew we were going to have to withstand it, and my teammates and I were able to fight through at the end. This was just a great game, there isn't much else to say but that.

Don Haddox

We start a lot form Tom's feet at center back. Stefan takes over at the midfield and controls things from that point on. He's more or less the distribution source for everything. And Jon and Steve are just really solid workhorses in the midfield. They could play in every minute of every game and through overtime. They're just real fit specimens.

Lexi Thompson

I met Taylor Lautner and Jonah Hill at the 'Today Show.' That was pretty cool.

Lauren Worsham

I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.

Laura Carmichael

I've been really lucky because I've managed to become wonderful friends with a handful of very talented British designers. Christopher Kane has become one of my very good friends - also Erdem. Jonathan Saunders is another brilliant talent who's very kind. We all hang out.

David Graveney

Until they go through fitness tests it's impossible to know if they are totally right. If you remember, we all thought Simon Jones would be fit to play at the Oval and he didn't.

Leon Litwack

What he did was to demonstrate to a very skeptical and rather sometimes indifferent profession ... that the history of black Americans was a legitimate field for scholarly inquiry and investigation.

Chris Rouland

Web sites get hacked so frequently, probably 50 a day, and if a hacker breaks into a Web site, they can easily change the code on the site, so that when users go to the site they think it's a legitimate Web site, and they will get infected.

Marco Boschetti

We believe this success is a direct consequence of companies' improved management of the M&A process, from target selection and pricing, to due diligence to implementation. In the future, this learning curve will certainly continue. So, while gaining competitive advantage through M&As is now a legitimate business strategy for growth, long-term success will depend on increasingly sophisticated M&A capability.

Leonie Brinkema

Unless the United States demonstrates a legitimate reason why these recordings are essential to an issue in dispute either in the guilt or penalty phase of this case, these tape recordings should not be admitted at trial,

Graham Spanier

Universities have made impressive progress in combating piracy of music and movies through educational efforts, technical controls, and the adoption of legitimate online services. At the same time, we in higher education must expand the reach of our efforts and must continue to be vigilant.

Jeremy Jacobs

We reiterate that they are welcome to participate on the same terms as other interested bidders, should they have a legitimate interest in pursuing an acquisition of the entire company.

Mark Sauer

We're getting some interest, but I can't comment on how sincere the interest is, ... We're waiting to see whether people graduate from tire kickers to legitimate interested parties.

John Mozena

We're generally supportive of efforts to make life easier on legitimate marketers. But I don't know if it's a good precedent to set for Internet service providers to charge per message for guaranteed delivery. That doesn't seem like the best way to handle spam.

Clint Hurdle

We stuck him in there when we ran out of other options last year. He settled into that role real well. He's not just a guy hitting behind (Todd) Helton anymore. He's a legitimate fourth-place hitter.

Katie Montgomery

We've barely had enough to go five-on-five, but we're ready to be aggressive and do whatever it takes to win. We've beaten tough teams this season. We know how to double-team and help each other out. We just have to be focused and work hard.

Al Groh

We've asked a lot of him being a young player. ... He's been asked to come in and play a major role in a hurry, but he's a very mature kid and he takes coaching terrifically.

John Carr

We've always said controllers are like runways -- it takes three to five years to make a good one,

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Dennis Hastert

Tomorrow we will pass a pharmaceutical plan that takes care of the neediest in our society, ... Older Americans deserve financial security and health security.

Dee Bell

We're more focused on a first group and a second group now. It's really evolved over practice. They know what I expect and what it takes now to compete.

Brett Tomko

We remember that stuff because it takes us back,

Larry Krantz

We respect the rights of Texans to have fun. But people need to realize that everyone pays when the state has to constantly stop what it's doing to repair this kind of damage. It takes away from our other responsibilities like building and maintaining roadways.

Kathy Griffin

We're so used to seeing celebrities being driven around in limos. I can go to an In-N-Out Burger whenever I want, and no one takes my picture.