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Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co-founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.

Phillips Brooks
US Episcopal bishop (1835 - 1893)

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Richard Jeni

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.

Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Bob Marley

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

So many Gods, so many creeds
So many ways that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
is all this sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard

Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
but has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler

Be still sad heart and cease repining;
Behind the clouds the sun is shining,
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life a little rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

Longfellow

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Michael Shermer

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Chapter 7

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

Sidney Madwed

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