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When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory... -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it. -- Christo
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. -- Christina Rossetti
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! -- Patricia Polacco
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. -- Martin McDonagh
It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories. -- Demian Bichir
I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire. -- Maggie Smith
Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way. -- Jeff Lemire
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. -- Sergio Aragones
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. -- Inga Muscio
I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. -- Inga Muscio
I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work. -- Charles Saatchi
As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent. -- Ian Beattie
I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas. -- Brandon Flowers
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings. -- Patricia Polacco
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think. -- Tina Weymouth
You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests. -- Arne Jacobsen
Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me. -- Dylan McDermott
You start to fall in love with characters as you work with them, and anytime that you care about your characters and you realize that you're gonna have to kill them, that fear creeps in. It's sad. It's scary, and it's also sad. Because you like these people. -- Drew Goddard
With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad. -- Vince Clarke
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them. -- Kevin Rudd
I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness. -- Mike Mills
The sad heart needs work to do. -- Joan Bauer
All work and no play will make you sad and grey! -- Habeeb Akande
There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart. -- George Eliot
That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration. -- Rajneesh
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy." -- Martin McDonagh
Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality. -- Sam Altman
Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor. -- Toni Braxton
If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad. -- Rudy Giuliani
When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom. -- David Ogilvy
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live. -- Karl Barth
Obviously generating revenue is what this is all about anymore, which is sad, but again, you have to find ways to make it work. But, yeah, that's certainly intriguing. -- Joe Torre

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