Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Martin and Stephen King - Brexit would mean a combination of 'A Feast for Crows' and 'Misery.'
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
To be clear, I abhor the separation wall. It is an eyesore in itself and makes tangible the failed diplomacy and cruel short-sightedness that causes such misery in the region. No Palestinian can see that wall and not wonder if the Israelis mean it to stay there forever, a constant reminder of what they never intend to change.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
My life has run from misery to happiness.
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
