Caleb Carr Quotes

And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking, "Do you want fries with that?

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

Life ain't fair, period.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

For no fault of mine, I lost everything.

It seems to me that rumors and dreams of justice are part of a dialectic of injustice and dreams of justice will be with us for as long as there's injustice, and that doesn't seem to be in short supply.

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.