“All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.”
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Sad Quotes — page 30 of 475
“The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.”
“My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.”
“I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.”
“Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were true of the male population, it would be declared a national emergency.”
“I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.”
“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”
“However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.”
“Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.”
“She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.”
“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”
“The bastards murdered half my family.”
“When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.”
“Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.”
“In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.”
“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
“Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.”
“Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs”
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”