Screwing People Over Quotes

#1. Why do you want to be a lawyer, Miss Everhart?" "I enjoy screwing people over," she said. "I figure I might as well get paid for it.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#2. Grimalkin snorted. "Just because he cannot lie does not mean he cannot deceive, human. Robin Goodfellow is an expert at dancing around the truth."
"Oh, look who's talking. If you're not an expert at screwing people over, I'll eat my head.

Julie Kagawa

#3. Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.

Jessica Brody

#4. Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Blake Edwards

#5. I never get tired of people telling me how important their job is as an excuse for screwing it up.

Christopher Farnsworth

#6. It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

Eugene Richards

#7. For our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go right on,' changing wine into water.

Soren Kierkegaard

#8. What I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business is screwing.

Stephen King

#9. Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things didn't come from government. Our world is going to get better and better, as long as we keep the politicians from screwing it up.

David Boaz

#10. It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

Edward Norton

#11. Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.

Marcel Proust

#12. I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!

Billy Crystal

#13. [ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

Alan Kay

#14. I don't even like old cars. I mean, they don't even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human

J.D. Salinger

#15. The gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own futuer.

Kirsten Beyer

#16. People are arguing whether Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" is anti-semitic. Well, whether it is or it isn't, it doesn't matter, because I've been in touch with his accounting firm, Rosencrantz, Levy and Stern, and they're screwing him out of his profits.

Joan Rivers

#17. You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal.

Tom Upton

#18. A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

John Elway

#19. For what it's worth, I think perfect love stories have perfect disasters hidden somewhere. If a genuine relationship comes out of two people screwing before they saw the potential of the 'relationship'? Its perfect, beautiful, a work of art in fact.. Normal is overrated.

Nike Thaddeus

#20. But [Stanley Wade] instead removed his glasses and wiped his eyes. They were moist not from fear but from the harsh reality of being confronted by one of his victims. How many others were out there? Why had he chosen to spend his career screwing these people?

~from "Michael's Room"~

John Grisham

#21. Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that.

David Levithan

#22. I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committing crimes and then getting on with their lives. What is really needed for public officials who shame themselves is ritual suicide.

George Carlin

#23. It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.

Thomas Fleming Day

#24. People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.

Elise Andrew

#25. He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

Margaret Atwood

#26. If you're screwing up and people aren't saying anything, that means they have given up.

Jim Graham

#27. Congratulations! We're reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari!

Scott Lynch

#28. Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.

Thomas Hobbes

#29. If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

Etty Hillesum

#30. Rome, yes, I say, thinking in quick succession of the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the cardinals screwing around while wondering whether women have souls or not, and of Nero, of course, who killed his closest family and let the city burn. I don't reckon he liked people, either.

Erlend Loe

#31. You are the universe experiencing itself.

Alan Watts

#32. It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

Clement Alexander Price

#33. Instead, they asked: How do we prevent our people from screwing up? That approach never encourages a creative response.

Ed Catmull

#34. Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up.

Mo Ibrahim

#35. The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.

Barry Diller

#36. The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#37. But it does make you feel smaller, which is a relief in some ways. When you screw up, it seems less terrible. all these people, everybody screwing up.

Rebecca Scherm

#38. I hate when people question my ability to get from one place to another without mutilating myself. It's tantamount to saying, "Try to get home without screwing it up like last time, dummy," or "Farewell, for I may never see you again, given the mortality that awaits us all like a crouching panther.

Rob Sheffield

#39. Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

Paul Brodeur

#40. Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Laurence Sterne