Jane Austen Quotes

We do not suffer by accident.

Jane Austen

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• No one should be left to suffer alone.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Alone
  • Should
  • Suffer

• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Health
  • Devil

• I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Believe
  • Understand
  • Thing

• I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mean
  • Happen
  • Suffer

• It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

  

  Alec Issigonis
  • Drive
  • Accident

• Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Suffer
  • Fools
  • Dean Acheson

• Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Up
  • God
  • Hope

• The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

  

  Arno Penzias
  • Life
  • Science
  • Support

• Some people seem to be born to suffer.

  

  August Strindberg
  • People
  • Suffer

• The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Mistakes

• I ran into Stephen King once in New York a few years ago and outside the Carlyle and he said, "You're in the pink." Which sounded so Stephen King. He's doing well I think after his accident and all of that, years and years ago.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • New York
  • Pink
  • Accident

• The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

  

  James Naismith
  • Basketball
  • Invention
  • Accident

• Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

  

  Aristotle
  • Destiny
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

  

  Euripides
  • Hurt
  • Suffer
  • Good Man

• This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

  

  Euripides
  • Violence
  • Slave
  • Suffer

• Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • War
  • Man

• Only two people known by name were also called “Son of God.” One was the Roman emperor—starting with Octavian, or Caesar Augustus—and the other was Jesus. This is probably not an accident. When Jesus came on the scene as a divine man, he and the emperor were in competition.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Competition
  • Accident
  • Son Of God

• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  

  Mark Twain
  • May
  • Die
  • Reading

• I'm not one of those players who talks about things off the field. It's about what trophies and titles and cups you've won.

  

  Ashley Young
  • Won
  • Titles
  • Talks

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• We do not suffer by accident.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Suffer
  • Accident