“"[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of those in one year. I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person. But the thing is, I don't care about the Grammys; I just would like for the statistics to be more accurate.”
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Sad Quotes — page 225 of 475
“I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.”
“Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!”
“Power was my weakness and my temptation.”
“I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I'm -- that I'm --" "Already dead," said Ron hopefully. Myrtle gave a tragic sob, rose up in the air, turned over, and dived headfirst into the toilet, splashing water all over them and vanishing from sight, although from the direction of her muffled sobs, she had come to rest somewhere in the U-bend.”
“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
“...fact takes no heed of human hopes.”
“Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.”
“There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess”
“There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.”
“... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.”
“Chess is a curse upon a man.”
“At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.”
“Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.”
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
“What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
“In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.”
“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”
“The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.”
“Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.”