“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 97 of 169
“The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.”
“The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment.”
“Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.”
“I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.”
“Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.”
“If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken!”
“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.”
“Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.”
“Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity”
“Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.”
“I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices.”
“And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.”
“Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.”
“I’m worse at what I do best.”
“I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.”
“No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.”
“I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.”
“O vanity, mislead no more!”
“That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.”