Sad State Of Affairs Quotes

#1. There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?

Lemmy Kilmister

#2. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]

Lemmy Kilmister

#3. Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.

Elizabeth Aston

#4. Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.

Raymond Pettibon

#5. It's a sad state of affairs when I'm the one bringing sanity to the equation

M.A. George

#6. she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.

Jacqueline Winspear

#7. I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

Sally Field

#8. It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.

Jen Selinsky

#9. We should treat with indulgence every human folly,
failing, and vice, bearing in mind that what we have
before us are simply our own failings, follies, and vices.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. Love is Not About Geting or Giving,
Love Is Not About Fall in And Out,
Love Is The Real Being In Us!
Love Is Infinite!
Love Is GOD!
Love Is O2!
Bless You LOVE

Sushil Singh

#11. The biggest looters are the British Museum.

Lowkey

#12. life is a long series of sucking it up when things don't go your way.

Ava Miles

#13. When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

Denzel Washington

#14. Forgiveness doesn't mean what happened wasn't wrong or didn't matter. If it wasn't wrong or didn't hurt, there wouldn't be anything to forgive.

Leigh Powers

#15. If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

Golda Meir

#16. When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Victor Hugo

#17. Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

Thomas Paine

#18. An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

Heinz Ruhmann

#19. You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.

Caitlin R. Kiernan