System Quotes
Sad Quotes about System

Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay
gets another person who can't pay
to guarantee that he can pay.
- Charles Dickens

I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates

It is much more painful to have lost
something you thought you had,
than never to have had it at all.
If feels as if our trust was dashed.
We are disappointed and we are angry;
but not quite sure at who to direct our anger.
Someone, perhaps "the system," perhaps God,
should have done better.
Most of all we are angry at ourselves -
even though we did our best -
and we are afraid.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz

It's not clutter, it's my unique filing system.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries,
based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight.
Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
- Charles A. Jaffe

I want to share with you the three rules
that I have in order to accept an apprentice.
Rule Number 1: Don't believe me.
I don't want you to believe me
but I want you to listen and make choices - your choices.
If what I say, doesn't work for you, leave it.
But if it works for you and that's what you want, then make it yours.
Rule Number 2: Don't believe yourself.
Why? Because most of your belief system is a lie - it's not true.
And by believing yourself, you create all the limitations
that don't allow you to be what you really are.
Don't believe yourself. Listen to what you say,
listen to what you think, listen to what you believe.
And when you listen, open your ears, open your mind,
open your intelligence and make choices.
Rule 3 is, don't believe anybody else.
Don't believe them at all.
Open your ears and your mind; listen and make choices.
- don Miguel Ruiz

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket
and rejoices that the system works.
- Bill Vaughan

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
- Oskar Schindler

I have an almost religious zeal...
not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me,
the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature,
linking up.
- Dan Millman

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice,
and they are also the most protected.
- Alan Dershowitz

Is the system going to flatten you out
and deny you your humanity,
or are you going to be able to make use of the system
to the attainment of human purposes?
- Joseph Campbell

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever
invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
- Irving R. Kaufman

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
- Clifford Stoll

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
- Michael K. Powell

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
- Milton Friedman

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad
that we don't have a system where the losing team has
to pay the winning team's lawyers.
- Carol Burnett

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and
independent distribution system.
The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
- Don Henley

The greatest force in the human body
is the natural drive of the body to heal itself -
but that force in not independent of the belief system.
Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
- Norman Cousins

Living Into the Great Paradox,
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life serves up.
I work to bring about my vision of the future,
which is based on my value system of what is right,
just, noble, compassionate, generous, humane, peaceful, and loving.
Simultaneously, I accept that my vision
is based on only my opinions and prejudices,
and I honor all points of view and value systems,
no matter how different from my own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe.
All is system and gradation.
Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise
of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure
of building up a collective peace system.
- Arthur Henderson

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation
that would operate with perfect equality.
- Andrew Jackson

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking
the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
- Sydney J. Harris

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
- Alfred A. Montapert

The system of nature, of which man is a part,
tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting,
self-cleansing.
Not so with technology.
- E. F. Schumacher

Women were real box office stars in the '40s,
more so than men.
People loved to see women's films.
I think it was better then, except for the studio system.
- Gwyneth Paltrow

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing,
and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
- Samuel Alexander

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system -
both individual and corporate/business.
- Allen West

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down,
this is pretty much what you get left with.
We have no communications, no running water,
no electricity, no real help.
- Kathleen Blanco

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have,
in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers.
If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal,
will become a bad deal.
- Mitch McConnell

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent
where we decide if we're going to use it.
- Peter King

When you become a parent, or a teacher,
you turn into a manager of this whole system.
You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child,
regulating it.
- Kazuo Ishiguro

They do not say Roosevelt saved our system.
They say he has given us a new one.
That is logical.
- John T. Flynn

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden,
this is some new system.
- Mark Shields

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear,
biological and chemical weapons.
- Richard Lugar

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic,
controllable disease.
It means being wedded to the health system.
- Phil Berger

If allowed to run free of the social system,
capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy,
which is after all not a natural state.
- John Ralston Saul

One of the unfortunate things about our education system
is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves
of their subconscious capabilities.
- Bill Lear

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy
and gave no thought to means testing it.
- Bob Inglis

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting
the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance.
The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.
- John Ralston Saul

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact,
streamlined skiing system.
- Paul Parker

Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.
- David Bohm

I've always liked the heavier stuff.
I've always loved Tool and System of a Down,
Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
- Rick Springfield

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans;
I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
- William Blake

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.
- Shannon Miller

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party
system is essential to our democracy.
- Stockwell Day

There are few in America that really know how to take
advantage of the current health care system.
- Matthew Lesko

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system
inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
- Stephen Hopkins

America had taken my father from me.
And over most of the years of his illness,
I gradually started feeling this support system from
this country who-people grieving along with us.
- Patti Davis

We need someone who is a strong representative of our value system.
- Kenneth Lay

Mendacity is a system that we live in.
Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
- Tennessee Williams

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was
established by which it was provided that we should,
in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.
- Henry Charles Carey

Any system of religion that has anything in it that
shocks the mind of a child,
cannot be true.
- Thomas Paine

The system should treat all user input as sacred.
- Jef Raskin

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because
I think people in America,
in North America, know that we have a very strong food
safety system and that our food is safe to eat.
- Ann Veneman

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
- Kevin Kelly

We want a system that will improve consistency and
steadiness in the quality of government.
- Ferdinand Mount

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
- David O. Selznick

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy.
If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy,
there are no benefits.
- Mike Huckabee

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system,
as you might guess.
I never wanted to be.
- Waylon Jennings

People are trying to live freely outside of,
or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free...
I definitely think we're positively orientated.
- Jon Fishman

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge
parts of the Marxist program,
such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated
into the American system.
- Robert Welch

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.
- Meg White