I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak,… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is,… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life.… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not… — Anna Ford Copy Share Image
Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone. — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a… — Jan Hellriegel Copy Share Image
We laughed a lot. That's one thing we forgot about for a few years - laughing. When we went through all the… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has… — George Canning Copy Share Image
At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image