Screwed Up Quotes - Page 7

• Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

  Nancy Kress

  Writing, Fiction, Stuff

  15 Copy quote

• I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.

  Jenny Lawson

  Facts, Realizing, Internet

  4 Copy quote

• Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Awakening, Strange

  4 Copy quote

• I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.

  Dave Pelzer

  Mistake, Believe, Ambition

  Dave Pelzer (2010). “Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life”, p.10, Hachette UK

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

  Mike Tyson

  Mistake, People, Boxing

  17 Copy quote

• Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, People, Broken

  "'Every single thing I know, as of today': Author Anne Lamott shares life wisdom in viral Facebook post" by Erin Clements, www.today.com. April 10, 2015.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. Up until my first book was published I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: No, I didn't screw up.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Book, People, Mind

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is so classic. Government comes along under the guise of fairness, fixes something, gonna make it fair, gonna make it equal, gonna make it affordable, maybe even make it free. What they end up doing is blowing it all to hell, screwing it up worse than it's ever been screwed up, then their voters bellyache and complain about it. And the same Democrats come back and demand that something be done, because their voters need a second chance.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Second Chance, Government, Done

  4 Copy quote

• I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Typical

  "The Legend Of Bob Metcalfe" by Scott Kirsner, www.wired.com. November 01, 1998.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

  Jimmy Wales

  Enough Time, Wikipedia, Screw Ups

  "Deconstructing Wikipedia at the Berkman Center". www.cnet.com. May 15, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

  Anne Lamott

  Cake, Needs, World

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

  Eric Cantor

  Lost Love, Majority, Looks

  "Yep, Eric Cantor Really Said All of These Things" by Austin Tedesco, www.boston.com. June 11, 2014.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sorry, Doe, Goes On

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.115, Delacorte Press

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Understanding, Misunderstood, Language

  49 Copy quote

• You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

  Peyton Manning

  Mean, Thinking, Nfl

  89 Copy quote

• Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're too ashamed. It’s a really screwed up world, but its not your fault, and what happened to you, it doesn't make you the monster.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Country, Years, Monsters

  26 Copy quote

• As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Life, Baggage, Helping

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

  Stephanie Klein

  Perfect, Screw Ups, Be Kind

  15 Copy quote

• I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

  Channing Tatum

  Soldier, Hollywood, Looks

  18 Copy quote

• I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Truth, Memories, Confused

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.188, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.

  Dan Millman

  Baby, Self, Criticism

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.48, New World Library

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who was it in Afghanistan who screwed up in Tora Bora and let bin Laden escape? It was the Bush Administration. Who leached all the resources, military and civil, from Afghanistan, creating the instability that we see there today in order to prepare for the misbegotten invasion of Iraq? It was the Bush administration. If there's a terrorist problem today, who is responsible now? Bush has not done the job.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Jobs, Military, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Nice, Character

  4 Copy quote

• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  James McGreevey

  Different, Life Living, Integrated

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

  Anne Lamott

  Daughter, Children, Thinking

  4 Copy quote