In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his… — Jimmy Cannon Copy Share Image
It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn’t solve anything… I don’t like yelling and fighting and I can’t quarrel, I prefer to let… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
It has always puzzled me, in my business, that people think they have to answer questions, no matter how disagreeable or dangerous,… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She had never seen an atom and never wanted to, because the idea of mountains and people being just different arrangements of… — Pamela Moore Copy Share Image
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological.… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a… — Plato Copy Share Image
John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies. — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements. — M. R. DeHaan Copy Share Image
As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable. — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. — Martial Copy Share Image
November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do… — Anne Shirley Copy Share Image
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image