FastSaying

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.


Viet Thanh Nguyen

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.
ANDRé GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
ANDRE GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRé GIDE It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.
JULIE DE LESPINASSE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.
JAVAN It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of you...
BETTE DAVIS I'd rather be hated for hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
KURT COBAIN It is better to be trusted than to be loved.
DAVID O. MACKAY It is better to be loved than feared
AFRICAN PROVERB It is better to be feared than loved.
LEWIS CARROLL If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
SACHA GUITRY Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer
SACHA GUITRY Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer
SACHA GUITRY It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
ANONYMOUS If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
ANON. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (MACCHIAVELLI) Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
LEONARDO DA VINCI It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.
KURT COBAIN To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
MINNA ANTRIM It is far better to be alone, than to wish you were.
UNKNOWN It is far better to be alone than to wish you were
ANN LANDERS I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
KURT COBAIN To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
OSCAR WILDE It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
OSCAR WILDE I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
KURT COBAIN It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.
JAMES K. FEIBLEMAN She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat...
TAWNI O'DELL It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIRE It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books
VOLTAIRE I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to ...
H. L. MENCKEN I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, ...
HANK GREEN It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
KWAME NKRUMAH Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the lov...
BIBLE What's really amazing is some of them hated Bill more than they hated me.
RICK BARRY Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
SERJ TANKIAN It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to pract...
RICKY WILLIAMS Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
WILLIAM PENN It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better re...
CHARLES DICKENS It is better to be than belong.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.
EDGAR SALTUS It is better to be honourable than be honoured.
SHIV KHERA It is better to be supportive than be superior.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is better to be redeemed than be rich.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
TOM STOPPARD It is better to be good than to be original.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is better to be redeemed than to be rich.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB It is better to be faithful than famous.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is better to be safe than sorry.
AMERICAN PROVERB It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUS It is better to be gentle than rude.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUS ("FATHER OF HISTORY") It is better to be ignorant than mistaken
JAPANESE PROVERB It is better to be redundant than remiss.
RAIN BOJANGLES It is better to be polite than rude.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is better to serve than be served.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is better to be positive than negative.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is better to be faithful than famous
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is better to be sorrowful than sad.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is better to be patient than proud.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Is it better to be useful than successful?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you see something wrong, and you know it is wrong, and you see others believing it as a truth, th...
HUSSEIN WAEL SHAHADHA Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
CORETTA SCOTT KING I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better tha...
SARGENT SHRIVER All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER It really is better to be lucky than to be good.
JEFF LINDSAY It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their w...
JOHN RUSKIN It is better by far to calm yourself than rile yourself.
JIM GENOVESE It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfi...
JOHN STUART MILL In politics, it is better never to have loved at all than to have loved and lost.
VIKRANT PARSAI It really it is better to be safe than sorry.
SEAN HANNA It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is bett...
E. LOCKHART I love to love and to be loved, yet hate to hate and to be hated.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
MARILYN MONROE It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
CAMPBELL BROWN It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
MAE WEST Sometimes it is better to be kind than right.
KARLA MONTALBANO It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

More Viet Thanh Nguyen

The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid.
VIET THANH NGUYEN I could live without television, but not without books.
VIET THANH NGUYEN We must be vigilant, even of each other, but mostly of ourselves. What my time in the cave taught me...
VIET THANH NGUYEN Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of represen...
VIET THANH NGUYEN As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma n...
VIET THANH NGUYEN lmost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming more perfect as one ascen...
VIET THANH NGUYEN Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of...
VIET THANH NGUYEN Disarming an idealist was easy
VIET THANH NGUYEN Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.
VIET THANH NGUYEN Every paranoid person is right at least once, said the tall sergeant. When he dies.
VIET THANH NGUYEN We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to ...
VIET THANH NGUYEN The rating on its face is inexplicable in that a substantial majority of the Committee found him
VIET DINH The rating on its face is inexplicable in that a substantial majority of the committee found him 'we...
VIET DINH The current system does not provide a means to track the status of aliens after they are admitted in...
VIET DINH From a matter of congressional investigations, it is a much more manageable railroad for him to run,...
VIET DINH When I am suffering, I see death is better than life. When I am happy, I see life is better than dea...
THANH LUU Time is Life and Life needs Time; Life needs Love and Love is Life. Things don't move on Time, Time ...
THANH LUU Dying is not easy as Living and Living is not easy as Loving and Loving is not easy as being happy a...
THANH LUU Who said Relationship doesn’t need afford is not at relationship at All.
THANH LUU God creates humans not for perfection, but through imperfection that makes them perfect
THANH LUU Humans create machine out of their image; God creates humans out of their image.
THANH LUU Life is about Everything and Everything about Its Life.
THANH LUU The Happier the more the Merrier and the Good the better, positive thinking Positive reaction positi...
THANH LUU For the convenience of patients and visitors, public areas, clinical floors and conference rooms are...
THANH TRAN I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpo...
VIET D. DINH I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our s...
VIET D. DINH Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now,...
VIET D. DINH The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action...
VIET D. DINH The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resou...
VIET D. DINH I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of...
VIET D. DINH Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respe...
DAT NGUYEN 'Hibakusha' is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take ...
STEVE NGUYEN No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reache...
KIEN NGUYEN When we were merely children, we constantly hold onto our parent’s hand for protection and safety....
DUY NGUYEN In the sallow afternoon, I watched her get dressed.
KIEN NGUYEN Eventually Santa Monica has to grow out towards this way, it has to expand out eventually. And I'm n...
YEN NGUYEN As I view this world, all I see is happiness and contentment. Not because of the everyday events tha...
DUY NGUYEN She's very friendly in the sense she makes you feel comfortable. [But] she's not the chit-chat type ...
DUSTIN NGUYEN It's very different. But this was an opportunity for us to serve our people in a very tangible way.
BERNADETTE NGUYEN We are addressing the demands of consumers who want the latest technology to provide the best entert...
LIEM NGUYEN Users can drag their files into the player, just like another hard drive.
LIEM NGUYEN It's always been much more widespread than anyone says, but it gets swept under the rug. We all know...
LONG NGUYEN A lot of the Vietnamese kids can't really speak Vietnamese anymore. Most of them will have a very he...
YEN NGUYEN I must be a masochist for I am in love with a person that does not love me.
DUY NGUYEN I have a lot of role models to study. Guys like Ray Lewis, Tedy Bruschi and Kendrell Bell. You learn...
DAT NGUYEN I don't dwell on whether I am an overachiever. After my career is over I will sit down and evaluate ...
DAT NGUYEN I don't have anything to give you, except to show you a way to better yourself.
KIEN NGUYEN Love is existent regardless of age, for age itself is a mirage. The actually truth is if our mentali...
DUY NGUYEN Countless times, people questions "What is love?" I beleive love is many things. A majority of the p...
DUY NGUYEN The statement "I can not live without you" is simply ludicrous. One is able to live without that cer...
DUY NGUYEN I had about half a bottle of red wine and it kind of took the edge off me,
DUSTIN NGUYEN One of the things I loved about Cate and Rowan [Woods, the director] is they constantly challenged t...
DUSTIN NGUYEN You want to stop the run and you want to put them in third-and-long so you can blitz,
DAT NGUYEN Selling one song at a time is like selling just one chapter of a book.
BILL NGUYEN Music should be a communal social experience, but in today's world 40% of music is purchased at plac...
BILL NGUYEN My son was born 16 months ago, and I was sitting around the house, and for the first time since coll...
BILL NGUYEN Trading CDs is an affordable way to experiment and try new music.
BILL NGUYEN How can you be a record store and not have Led Zeppelin or the Beatles?
BILL NGUYEN The fractional Baud Rate Generator allows the user to use any available clock source on their board ...
ERIC NGUYEN Life goes on.
ANDY NGUYEN The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and th...
DAT NGUYEN You have to compete every time you walk on the field. You want to get better, no matter how long you...
DAT NGUYEN This is the last opportunity we have to play organized football,
DAT NGUYEN It was weird at first. It's part of business and, unfortunately, that's how it is. Our friendship is...
DAT NGUYEN He's a great guy and he's been a great mentor for me. I looked up at him when I was a college player...
DAT NGUYEN I am getting more comfortable with it. It's still basically just going out and playing football.
DAT NGUYEN It's not much adjustment for me,
DAT NGUYEN I welcome the challenge with open arms, ... That's why I play this game — I love challenges and pr...
DAT NGUYEN Every day you're going to be evaluated, so you have to perform and bring your 'A Game' or they will ...
DAT NGUYEN I just have to be a little more patient, ... It's all about speed when you play in the 4-3 because y...
DAT NGUYEN I would have probably felt better if I'd had a body double, ... But I figured if Cate was game ... I...
DUSTIN NGUYEN This is a very important first step for Vietnam, to be at a stage where it can attract a world-class...
HENRY NGUYEN No better opportunities for IT companies can be found anywhere else in the whole of Southeast Asia.
HENRY NGUYEN This event is a big splash in the development of IT in Vietnam, a very significant step.
HENRY NGUYEN We moved to a town that's predominately Caucasian, some Hispanic and one or two black families, ...
DAT NGUYEN I got into sports, thankfully, because I didn't listen to my mother.
DAT NGUYEN Hit me again, and I'll report you to the authorities. Follow me to my bed one more time, and I swear...
KIEN NGUYEN When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the...
LONG NGUYEN Egg roll! Homemade vegetable! But the people are friendly, and it's better than nothing.
LONG NGUYEN Could be better. Need steak. Pork chop, maybe.
LONG NGUYEN We saw an opportunity to streamline and consolidate our portfolio. We made a decision to transition ...
LIEM NGUYEN They're people who have a price they can't exceed.
LIEM NGUYEN no new product announcements are forthcoming at this time.
LIEM NGUYEN It's the first time we're using a word-of-mouth campaign to drive interest, instead of a traditional...
LIEM NGUYEN He was annoyed because the Giants were losing. He told me he was on vacation for a week, but he was ...
MASON NGUYEN When I first took the bench, I was assigned to handle a calendar of criminal cases. It was an enormo...
JACQUELINE NGUYEN It will also provide consultation services on assessment of training demand, post-training evaluatio...
DIEP THANH KIET With much stronger competition worldwide, especially from China, garment buyers are now demanding mo...
DIEP THANH KIET They are no longer competitive because their technology is not up-to-date and their management costs...
DIEP THANH KIET We have called on enterprises with big resources in terms of production as well as finance to join t...
DIEP THANH KIET John McCain's words and statements, which lack good will, have hurt the Vietnamese and Asian peoples...
PHAN THUY THANH History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and f...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN To discover something truly great, one must set sail and leave the shore of comfort.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Everything begins with accepting oneself. Without self-acceptance, one cannot accomplish anything.
XUAN-THU NGUYEN A house built with integrity will endure and so will a company.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself ...
NGUYEN CAO KY Unless you break free from the shackles of beauty as dictated by the media and society, true beauty ...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting ...
NGUYEN CAO KY After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North ...
NGUYEN CAO KY Lovers navigating with different moral compasses causes the relation ship to sail in circles.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN The perfect partner is an imposter for the perfect partnership.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN This is possible during the period of temporary detention, according to Vietnam's criminal procedure...
NGUYEN DUC TRINH The candy colored coral snake.
The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.
Décolletage.
Bewa...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN As long as you are pursuing happiness, you do not have it.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN In this campaign, we target mostly breeding birds and we have to vaccinate them twice to make sure. ...
NGUYEN HUY DANG If you pay attention to your ranking and comparison to others, you are competing with others.
I...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN 10 square meters of heaven is worth far more than 100 square meters of hell.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Love me best when I'm drenched in angsts, grant your solace and salve my burdens
NIA NGUYEN RODE Excessively sweet praise can rot your ego over time.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Stability of the mind under stress is the calmness of the soul that would weather any storm.
NIA NGUYEN RODE To make robots practical, flaws must be removed.
To make robots endearing, flaws must be added...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour ...
NGUYEN CAO KY Sometimes people are boring not because they are boring but because they want to get rid of the pers...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Start a rumor about
peace taking over,
love being the new black,
and compassion going...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN The eccentricities of a person can not be drawn with a conventional compass tool.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Being alone is not synonymous with incompleteness.
Having a partner is not a precondition for c...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Once in a blue moon if you’re lucky, making love produces a rare by-product called love.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Making love is not a prelude to love.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN When you eat too much chocolate, you get sick of it.
When you drink too much champagne, you get...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Mute Cyclops is the Eunuch King.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN everything in life happen for a reason something that you cant change whatever the out come is you w...
THAI LAN NGUYEN It's all about having a passion for something, and I am a passionate Jack of All Trades.
CRYS R. NGUYEN The voyage of a lifetime starts at the windowsill.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN If you fatally kill fate,
your life sentence will be
to steer the reins of choice.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on th...
NGUYEN CAO KY Every atom in your body spins and dances
like a bee around the queen,
like a whirling derv...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.
MARY SAGE NGUYEN Setting sail using different moral compasses causes a relationship to go in circles.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Aim not for the target.
Aim to hit the target.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN What did one mirror see in the other?
Nothing.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Emotional scars run deeper than the Nile
and often lie lurking behind a smile.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Many people are afraid of diving deep into a relationship but they are also afraid of leaving it whi...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN She walks in beauty.
I am trampled by it.
She swims in beauty.
I drown in it.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Emotional and psychological dependency makes the heart vulnerable and prone to breaking when a relat...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Contempt is the kryptonite of a good relationship.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN All situations can be resolved peaceful. We should advocate for kindness instead of violence.
MARY SAGE NGUYEN When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on ...
NGUYEN TAN DUNG Avant-garde art is yoga for the mind.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Journalism delivers news, but not necessarily relevance.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN When God created the Garden of Eden,
She became the first permaculturalist.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN When God created the Garden of Eden,
She didn’t use synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbi...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN You can spend your whole life traveling around the world searching for the Garden of Eden, or you ca...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Do precedes done.
No precedes none.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.
Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flo...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
NGUYEN CAO KY By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
NGUYEN CAO KY The pursuit of a dream partner can lead to a nightmare relationship.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN To find perfect ripeness, catch it.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN To find perfectly ripe fruit, catch it.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough. David did not kill Goliath just because...
VO NGUYEN GIAP Stress is a dragon.
Believe in it and you’re toast.
Slay your stress.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN If you expect the battle to be insurmountable,
you've met the enemy.
It's you.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Defrosting a frozen memory can get the present all wet.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN If being grounded is important, stay away from Prince Charming because he will sweep you off your fe...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls ev...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Take a detour.
Discover small towns
and friendly faces
that don't grow along the high...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN What is more thrilling than BASE jumping into the abyss of one’s imagination?
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN An alluring woman
need not bat an eyelash
to hit a homer
and steal a man's heart.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Shed the tears.
Shed the blame and guilt too.
So that your heart mends and heals.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN At the court today they all made clear statements about the guilt of Mr Glitter.
NGUYEN NGOC HUNG Turn your back on the love you have for someone who has turned his back on you.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN What catches your attention can change day to day.
But what catches your attention day after d...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN If you follow a recipe for life, spontaneity will be cooked.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN