I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak that you are a sinner a miserable creature and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me with her compassion patience and understanding.

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read I refused to do so.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

I'm doing 'Les Miserables ' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like 'Come on let's do a movie/musical.'

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done it's always your choice.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

Go miser go for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor ya know?

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money for that is the miser's passion not the thief s.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice crime ambition injustice oppression slavery and war proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.