#wretch

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#during #economic #economically #federal #generates

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#entirely #happy #loved #make #seeks

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#bear #below #coward #equal #ever

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. ↗

— David Sedaris

#books #i #like #lives #nonfiction

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#desperately #how #just #makes #me

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#city #condition #does #growth #increase

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. ↗

— Tacitus

#against #although #happy #many #more

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. ↗

— John Major

#argument #biggest #biggest mistake #both #both sides

Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#wretch #love

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. ↗

— Walter Scott

#death-and-dying #pride #walter-scott #wretch #death