“I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.”
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Sad Quotes — page 124 of 475
“The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.”
“In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.”
“My only hope lies in my despair.”
“Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.”
“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”
“As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.”
“An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.”
“Effective action is always unjust.”
“The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.”
“Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.”
“Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.”
“It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime. I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets organization. They seemed to have no identity. My concern was that the character of the players they were looking for superseded the talent they brought to the table. Character on a team is important, but you've got to have the horses to win.”
“During the periods when South Korea played a more active role, the inter-Korean relationship was more peaceful, and there was less tension between the United States and North Korea. The last U.S. administration pursued a policy of strategic patience and did not make any effort to improve its relationship with North Korea. Also, the previous Korean government did not make any such efforts. The result is the reality you see today - North Korea continuing to advance its nuclear and missile program.”
“No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.”
“Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story.”
“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
“No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.”
“Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.”
“My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.”