Sordidly Unpleasant Quotes

#1. The events in your life are the result of your past deeds, performed in this lifetime or the ones before. You alone are responsible for it. Such is the law of karma.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#2. The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

Drew Bledsoe

#4. Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Richard M. Nixon

#5. I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Eddie Albert

#6. Pause one second. And be honest." Thorne held up a finger.
"Are you having a mental breakdown right now?

Marissa Meyer

#7. I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.

Janet Fitch

#8. This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

Jim Capaldi

#9. You jeopardize all if move slowly on a fast lane.

Toba Beta

#10. I start walking toward my bike with renewed purpose.
"I don't think I need any help to knock on a door."
Carlos yells, "Be careful, my friend. The problem with knocking on doors is you're never quite sure who's going to be on the other side.

Greg Logsted

#11. The elf had regained consciousness ... sort of. He leaned against Blitz, giggling silently and making random signs like, Butterfly. Pop. Yippee.

Rick Riordan

#12. We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all problems, and that we would finally accomplish a technological end-run around biological reality and the human condition.

Wendell Berry