Shafted Quotes

#1. And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington.

Jerry Springer

#3. I guess we're even,Sadie.First,Walt and I rushed off to save you in London.Then,you and Walt rushed off to save me.The only one who got shafted on both deals was Walt.Poor guy gets hauled all over the world pulling us out of trouble

Rick Riordan

#4. If you don't feel the same way about him, if you're just leading him on, you need to tell him that. I've seen too many nice guys get shafted because a girl can't get over some jerk.

Nenia Campbell

#5. I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that
I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling
like I've been shafted.

James Toback

#6. Alone he staggered on until he found
Dawn's ghost that filtered down a shafted stair
To the dazed, muttering creatures underground
Who hear the boom of shells in muffled sound.

Siegfried Sassoon

#7. Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

William C. Bryant

#8. You only have to pick up a paper to see the sort of scams and injustices that are out there. There's a sense that people don't belong and just aren't very happy. They're outraged, in fact, and they're being shafted left, right and centre.

Sean Bean

#9. The sun shafted in and made her eyes glow, picking out glints of yellow in irises that were mostly green and brown.

Neal Stephenson

#10. Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.

Max Gladstone

#11. Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret.

Gina Greenlee

#12. We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East ... The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael ... [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

#13. I finally figured out the real difference between irony and satire
irony is when you fry a chicken in batter mixed from its own eggs, and satire is when you crack jokes about it.

Taylor Anderson

#14. Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

Alton Brown