“You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.”
Regretful feeling
Regretful Quotes — page 128 of 169
“Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams - he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times - and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list. I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.”
“I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.”
“I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.”
“When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.”
“I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.”
“Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.”
“There is only one class of men, the privileged class”
“Give up the tyranny of female charm.”
“I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.”
“The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.”
“[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]”
“I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.”
“Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.”
“I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.”
“Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.”
“Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.”
“There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.”
“who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism”
“Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.”