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I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
The miseries suffered by our people come more from the shameless exploitation of our countries.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
We are always larger than life because we come from this mentality that since we are a very poor nation, we need an escapist cinema to take us out of our miseries. And that's where Bollywood comes from.
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.
