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On its face, it looks like an obvious violation of both federal laws and America's founding ideals, and it warrants a searching and fearless investigation as a minimum starting point, enough of the sordid business of dividing us up by race; it's high time Congress took America's woke universities to task and brought their ivory towers of tyranny to the ground. – Chip Roy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life. – Ginger Rogers	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
All I can say to them is if they have a sordid past like what I had, they too can receive the cleansing and renewing, and they can start a fresh life and they can be different, they don’t have to remain in their sin, there’s hope for tomorrow. – Kim Davis	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There is not just astonishment and question marks, but also a history that is too long, too heavy, too difficult, and above all, very sordid. – President Cristina Fernandez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! – Luigi Pirandello	added by anonymous 9 years ago
He who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come; but he who confers should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from a reproach. – Demosthenes	added by anonymous 12 years ago
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. – C. S. Lewis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! – William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The world is too much with us late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon – William Wordsworth	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. – Demosthenes	added by anonymous 14 years ago

On its face, it looks like an obvious violation of both federal laws and America's founding ideals, and it warrants a searching and fearless investigation as a minimum starting point, enough of the sordid business of dividing us up by race; it's high time Congress took America's woke universities to task and brought their ivory towers of tyranny to the ground.

– Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.

– Ginger Rogers

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

All I can say to them is if they have a sordid past like what I had, they too can receive the cleansing and renewing, and they can start a fresh life and they can be different, they don’t have to remain in their sin, there’s hope for tomorrow.

– Kim Davis

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There is not just astonishment and question marks, but also a history that is too long, too heavy, too difficult, and above all, very sordid.

– President Cristina Fernandez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

– Luigi Pirandello

added by anonymous
9 years ago

He who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come; but he who confers should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from a reproach.

– Demosthenes

added by anonymous
12 years ago

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.

– C. S. Lewis

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

– William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The world is too much with us late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon

– William Wordsworth

added by anonymous
14 years ago

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

– Demosthenes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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