“I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.”
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Sad Quotes — page 250 of 475
“The multitude is always in the wrong.”
“The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.”
“Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.”
“Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.”
“There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the "rich" and on the "fat cats." But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business-and soon to own 50%-the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds.”
“As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.”
“Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.”
“The world, the way we look at women and sexuality, is what needs to change - not our behavior, not who we are, not what we say. It's the intentions that should change. It's the mind-set. Otherwise, we're just going to be a completely confused society with not knowing what to say to one another. The mind-set of when you meet a woman is that you should try and get to know her.”
“Everything isn't perfect.”
“There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.”
“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
“Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.”
“A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.”
“Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.”
“We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.”
“I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!”
“Lord help my poor soul.”
“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!”
“Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.”