Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Douglas

We wrestled pretty well the first round. We had some moments of despair, but overall we had a pretty good round.

William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Al Alvarez

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

Chinua Achebe

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Charles Lamb

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Charles Baudelaire

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

Charles Simic

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Cheryl Tiegs

I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually had more ups and downs after the shots were finished and she was pregnant because of the reality of being pregnant with twins.

Gloria Allred

We've also faxed them a letter yesterday letting them know that she would like to be a party, be told of the developments, she'd like to be able to visit and she'd like the return of her twins as soon as possible.

Eli Roth

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

Karen Finerman

I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.

Charles Dickens

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

Charles Spurgeon

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

Beverly Cleary

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Bootsy Collins

I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.

Bob Dylan

I fought with my twin, the enemy within.

George McGovern

We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

Chanakya

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Grover Cleveland

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement.

Caroline Kennedy

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

Benjamin Haydon

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Clark Blaise

Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

Lester B. Pearson

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.