Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A miserable person says, 'Let's be positive today!' It's reassuring themselves that things won't get worse. A truly positive person is not… — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
People will come up, and they'll talk about 'Misery.' But a lot of people will talk about 'Waterboy.' — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image