Bad idea Quote by Sam Altman

When things get better, there's a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others.

— Rupi Kaur

Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.

— Martha MacCallum

We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea…

— Leszek Kolakowski

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is…

— Gerald Jampolsky

Sometimes, in order to find happiness, one must allow some old bridges to collapse, in order to build better ones.

— Anonymous

Those who fixate only on making money or winning elections will find it an unhappy existence much of the time.

— Margaret Hoover

If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

— Patton Oswalt

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion,…

— Al Gore

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness…

— William Cowper

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

— Jerome K. Jerome