Not Fair Quotes - Page 5

• We're not fair weather friends. We've been in places for a long, long time.

  Jamie Dimon

  Weather, Long, Fairs

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it's just the list is too long to mention just one and it's not fair to the others.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Long, Effort, Lists

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• If you are wealthy and can hire enough accountants and attorneys, you can find ways around the code. It's fundamentally not fair. It wastes a lot of time and energy and effort to comply with it. It doesn't encourage savings and investment. And we need to simply it and make it more fair.

  Karl Rove

  Effort, Way, Waste

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of the parents every single day.

  Mark Shields

  Children, Growing Up, Army

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.

  Whitney Houston

  Brother, Children, Husband

  "Houston praises fans, bashes rumors as new album releases" by Mark Scheerer, www.cnn.com. November 18, 1998.

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• It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Corruption, Fairs

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of motives to people who say they see all this inequality out there and need to fix it. It's just not fair. You'll hear it manifest itself in discussions about the so-called widening gap between the rich and the poor or the widening gap between men and women. It's like actually two twin beds.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Two, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Obama is playing to the lowest common denominator of everybody, and he is telling them that if anybody's got more money than you do, it's not fair and it's unjustified and somehow you have been ripped off or screwed, and that is his message.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Messages, Common, More Money

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.

  Nelly

  Fall, Causes, Sometimes

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• While millions of American families, including mine and yours, were working hard paying our fair share, it seems Donald Trump was contributing nothing to our nation. Imagine that. Not fair. Nothing for Pell grants to help kids go to college. Nothing for veterans. Nothing for our military.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Kids, College

  Hillary Clinton's Remarks From a Rally in Toledo, Ohio, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

  Marg Helgenberger

  Sports, Life Lesson, Lessons

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• It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

  Phil Gramm

  Hands, People, Pay

  "Real revolution of George W. Bush", www.cnn.com. August 5, 2003.

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• It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Devil, Looks, May

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)”, p.5140, Macmillan

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• It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.

  India.Arie

  People, Aids, Fairs

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• I hate them!' she cried. 'It's not fair!' 'No, it isn't,' Frederick said gently. 'I can't do it all!' 'No. You can't.' After a long moment he said, 'But you can do what you can.' 'And what if that isn't enough?' Frederick held her shoulders and took a step back. He looked in her eyes. 'Enough for what?' 'For my family.' 'What more could they ask for than what you've given?

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Hate, Eye, Long

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• It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it.

  Diana Ross

  Fighting, Names, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Government, Israel, People

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• I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair.

  Charles Barkley

  Wise, Country, Successful

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• There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this- and by “new at it.” I mean 15 years in, or even 20- you're just starting to grow traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that's in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.

  Louis C. K.

  Believe, Mean, Guitar

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• I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.

  Nadya Suleman

  Believe, Thinking, Things In Life

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because its not fair.

  Joel Siegel

  Expectations, Fairs

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• Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

  Jane Austen

  Grief, Sorrow, World

  Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.150, Infobase Publishing

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• It's not fair to look at me and my husband as a couple when it comes to work. In the lab we are colleagues. We have the same vision and we both are very ambitious. I think ambitious people find ambitious people to play with.

  May-Britt Moser

  Couple, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We're not obligated to watch ourselves be dissolved away simply because it's not fair that we're so big and powerful. And a lot of people think that it is. And it's not. It's not an obligation. You wouldn't let your own home be treated this way. You wouldn't let your own neighborhood be treated this way. And you don't have to let your own country, either.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Powerful, Home

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• What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.

  Octavia Spencer

  Responsibility, Titles, Pay

  Source: www.npr.org

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