“For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 226 of 313
“A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.”
“I've seen death and I didn't like it.”
“All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.”
“My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.”
“As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've been through everything, you know, so I can write a positive song like 'Better Get to Livin'' because that's my attitude. But that doesn't mean I'm happy all the time. You can't be a deep and serious songwriter without feelings. You kinda have to live with your feelings out on your sleeve and get hurt more than most people. The fear I might get hurt means I might not be able to write another song.”
“Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.”
“Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.”
“I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.”
“I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.”
“Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.”
“I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'”
“So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.”
“Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.”
“The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.”
“But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.”
“Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.”
“Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.”
“It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.”
“I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.”