Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...
Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?
The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.
But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.
I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.
The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.
I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.
Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.
They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!
If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.
