Lamentably Quotes

#1. Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

Vince Cable

#2. No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.

Nancy Astor

#3. For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

James A. Garfield

#4. I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

William Shakespeare

#5. God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

Louis Pasteur

#6. A writer is first of all a reader. It is from reading that I derive the standards by which I measure my own work and according to which I fall lamentably short.

Susan Sontag

#7. It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled ... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.

Frances Wright

#8. - Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself.
- But your yourself sucks!
- It is, lamentably, all I have.

Junot Diaz

#9. The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from our midst, root and branch, this physical element and return to our laboratories.

Henry Edward Armstrong

#10. The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

William Ralph Inge

#11. We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars - the kind that dominate the night sky, but are lamentably both rare and short-lived. If biology's your thing, you can forget those guys.

Seth Shostak

#12. Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Stefan Zweig

#13. How true, lamentably true. I'm sorry, Father. I do not love my neighbor as myself.

Franny Billingsley

#14. So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.

Gayle King

#15. He that fears death loses the joys of life.

Jan Hus

#16. Open up your plans and damn you're free!

Jason Mraz

#17. People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.

M.F. Moonzajer

#18. Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

Alex Berenson

#19. Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

Maria Weston Chapman

#20. What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.

Haruki Murakami

#21. He would often say, 'The longer you wait to fire someone the longer it has been since you should have fired them,

Ashlee Vance

#22. Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing," he said. "All people are good except those who are idle.

Will Durant

#23. Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, 'I've been waiting to meet you for half my life.'

Fay Wray

#24. While we lie tumbling in the hay.

William Shakespeare