“But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 20 of 475
“The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.”
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
“Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.”
“Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.”
“A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.”
“Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.”
“If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.”
“No chains around my feet, But I'm not free.”
“The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be.”
“The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.”
“I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.”
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
“There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.”
“Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.”
“Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.”
“Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.”
“There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.”
“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.”
“I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.”