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Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both. A life only of blissfulness will have extension, but will not have depth. A life of only sadness will have depth, but will not have extension.

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

Here you’re just a person…one with a life force that can feed us all. (Misery) Baby, I’m not worth the indigestion. Trust me. (Fang)

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's part of why I connect with Canadians. I think they understand grinding misery underneath.

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

I like to be myself. Misery loves company

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.