Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I personally think we developed language
because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't complain, don't whine, and don't gossip.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Fair" is not a useful concept.
Life is not "fair."
You can't make life "fair."
You can get angry.
You can complain about life not being "fair."
You can attempt revenge - perhaps violently.
You can inflict great suffering upon yourself
in the name of life being "unfair."
And Life is still not "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,
it is simply purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln
The ad agency's name for Hell is "Las Vegas."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some days just go to Hell faster than others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham
My God, this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies.
I can take care of my enemies all right.
But my damn friends, my goddamn friends.
They're the ones that keep me walking the floor at night.
- Warren G. Harding
Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell.
Not being guilty, you will have the freshness
of dewdrops in the early morning sun,
you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake,
you will have the freshness of the stars in the night.
Once guilt disappears you will have
a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant.
You will have a dance to your feet
and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.
- Osho
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
It's cookies, he smells like cookies,
and the smell gets stronger when he's in heat.
- the movie Michael
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When life is like a slippery downhill slope,
go skiing and scream Whee... all the way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Lewis Carroll
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
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