Life is one sick joke after another, I'm discovering. Because it hardly seems fair that it should hurt so much to finally get exactly what I've been wishing for.
On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just ...
I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get ...
And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
I asked you to marry me – and you laughed. You thought I was joking. In fairness, I was still dressed as a Cavalier.
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.
Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.
There's a thing in music that wants to change people. A thing that speaks to the soul. And there's a thing in people that listens, and changes when the music speaks.
I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.
The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...
It wasn't fair to pull her into that vortex, because I couldn't be fixed. And Roxy was a fixer. She thought she could help me, I could see it in her eyes.
Et il regrettait de ne pas avoir plus de mains, plus de lèvres pour lui faire partout plus de joies à la fois.
She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play
The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
You guys just aren’t fair, between your vampire pheromones and your gorgeous good looks, we humans just don’t stand a chance.
The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.
But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.
