“Trying is the first step toward failure.”
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Sad Quotes — page 157 of 475
“People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.”
“Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.”
“what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.”
“Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine”
“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
“I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.”
“Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.”
“Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.”
“Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.”
“With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.”
“All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.”
“I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.”
“Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.”
“The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.”
“Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.”
“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”
“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.”
“The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.”
“During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.”