Quotes

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

I know people like to read about serial killers and spies, but most of us will never encounter these things. Sadly, most of the threats we encounter are at home.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

Free agency is always interesting, exciting, sad. It brings all emotions.

When you have used your beauty to get around, it's like having extra cash in your back pocket. I was so used to walking down the street and having the young guys passing by at least give me a flicker of a look. But once you're over 40, you become invisible. You're a brick in the building, and it's sad.

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

In 2006, I started making a film called 'Restraint of Beasts.' While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died.

I was very aware when when I was writing it that 'The Teaches of Peaches' was a really heavy breakup album. In the wake of a breakup, there's always anger and sadness. I would use the Roland to make myself feel better. I felt like I had a hole in my heart and a big emptiness.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.

It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics.

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

I spent a year storyboarding and writing on a show called 'The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack' for Cartoon Network, which really taught me how to run a show. Or at least the idea of running a show.

When I was at drama school, people weren't taking pictures of themselves every five minutes. So I didn't realise how I looked. It was only when people started taking pictures of themselves that I looked at myself and thought: 'Oh my God, I look really miserable.' Even when I'm happy I look sad.

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

I'm not tired of who I am. That would be sad!

It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.

Even in a world with much sadness, at its essence, life is beautiful.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful chapter of our past. But sadly it is very much part of our world today.