Wretched Quotes · Page 14

Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize…

— Vernon Howard

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

— Edwin Land

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the…

— Ivor Novello

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether…

— Sophocles

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

— Russell Kirk

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

— Isaac D'Israeli

What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail…

— Alastair Campbell

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

— George Herbert

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal…

— John Podhoretz

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

— Queen Elizabeth II

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any…

— Richard Flanagan

It seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce, and so I…

— Leopold Stokowski

Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.

— J. C. Ryle

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

— Victor Hugo

[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore…

— John Milton

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop…

— Gautama Buddha

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched…

— William Henry Harrison

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

— Shane Claiborne

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

— Gregor Mendel

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

— Jon Anderson

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

— Virgil