Sobering Thought Quotes

#1. The fact that she was even lying here in this bed with me right now was a freaking miracle. I'd never treated any girl so horribly in my life.
Wasn't that a sobering thought?
The one woman I wanted above all others was the one I treated the worst.

Cambria Hebert

#2. It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

Tom Lehrer

#3. A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? - JANE WAGNER

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#4. It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

Ruth Harrison

#5. It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine)

Walt Kelly

#7. A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Jane Wagner

#8. The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

Charles Handy

#9. The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Mark Twain

#10. Neither he [Ferenczi] nor Freud believed that a person should be exempted from legal punishment
or worse, that he should be punished by compulsory psychiatric "treatments"
because of psychoanalytic information about him. In the light of current thought, this is a startling and sobering fact.

Thomas Szasz

#11. you have to understand in order to disagree.

Charles Van Doren

#12. Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#13. To a soul which is wide awake, the Judgment Day does not come after death.
For that soul every day is a Judgment Day.
The Judgment Day is every day, and one realizes this as one's sight becomes more keen. Every hour, every moment in life has its judgment.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#14. Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ...

Alfonsina Storni

#15. You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out."
"Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[ ... ]
"Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

Anne Stuart

#16. I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

Ingmar Bergman

#17. Here in Bosnia I had already seen several cases of rheumatic fever and a case we thought was miliary tuberculosis, diseases now rare in America. It was sobering to think that the mundane process of vaccinating these children might ultimately save more lives than any UN-brokered peace treaty.

Pamela Grim

#18. The thought was sobering. How many people's motives didn't match up with what I'd taken for their actions? How many villains were the heroes of their own stories? I didn't know, and I was terribly afraid that I was never going to find out.

Mira Grant

#19. In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation ... I hereby declare my candidacy for the Likud party leadership and premiership of Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu