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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. -- Gloria Estefan
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. -- Shana Alexander
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. -- Hannah Arendt
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. -- William Peter Blatty
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life -- Donna Tartt
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know. -- Margaret Heffernan
It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North. -- Robert M. Pirsig
The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score. -- Wayne Jacobsen
The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most. -- Edward Snowden
The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war. -- John Podhoretz
In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need! -- Dave Hunt
Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice. -- Joshua Waitzkin
[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day. -- Charles Kimball
To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes. -- Haim Ginott
When we think about millions of hungry children, we don't think about America. We relate the problem to other nations, like Ethiopia, India or Somalia. The sad truth is that one is five American kids is at risk due to poor nutrition. -- Kristin Davis
It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it. -- Bob Proctor
The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever. -- Haruki Murakami
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice. -- William Allen White
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. -- Oscar Wilde
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. -- Gloria Estefan
Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream. -- David Gemmell
I'm just a guy who wears TOMS. It's the sad truth. -- Ryan Eggold
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life. -- Donna Tartt
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars. -- Joan Collins
The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it. -- James Gray
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. -- Henry Louis Gates
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.' -- Roger Rosenblatt
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework? -- Henry Louis Gates
The sad truth is the truth is sad. -- Daniel Handler
The sad truth is, they should never trust me. -- Julie Anne Peters
The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb. -- Elizabeth Scott
Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth. -- Michel Faber
The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law. -- Joy Fielding
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. -- Oscar Wilde
I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media. -- Sharon Stone
How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way. -- John Ashcroft
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Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth. -- Banana Yoshimoto
The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must. -- Helen Clark MacInnes
People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling. -- Alberta Hunter
And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? -- Jonathan Franzen
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth? -- Bill Watterson
The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits -- Jared Diamond
it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed. -- Daniel Handler
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds. -- Scott D. Anthony
The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given. -- Neal Shusterman

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