Wretchedest Quotes & Sayings

Now airlines charge for everything ... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen. — Ellen DeGeneres

Shall we not perish wretchedest of all, If in defiance of the law we cross A monarch's will? - weak women, think of that, Not framed by nature to contend with men. Remember — Sophocles

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men." — Eric Hoffer

The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity ... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented. — Woodrow Wilson

When I feel the Snickers bar in my hand, I know I'm in the inner sanctum. — Susan Ee

Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States ... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened. — Jerry Seinfeld

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap. — Alice Walker

The wretchedest shantytowners we'd seen yet, they were slumped in the ashes, arranged in postures of such listless torpor that for a moment I mistook even the ones who were sitting upright for dead. Their hair and bodies were blacked with ash and grease, and their faces so afflicted with pits and scars that I wondered if they were lepers. As — Ransom Riggs

Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his share in the creative energy that builds the world. We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials. — John Cowper Powys

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies. — Bob Dole

the following paragraph from an article of his on British rule in India, written in 1853: — Anonymous

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same. — Isiah Whitlock Jr.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die. — Kristin Hersh

If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people
that's in your hands. — Leo Tolstoy

Unfriending me when I didn't even know we were friends? It's like breaking wind when you're home alone. If I can't smell you, knock yourself out. — George Takei

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts. — Eric Hirzel

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies. — George Bernard Shaw