I think about my choice. Either outcome is bleak. If I stay and live through high school, go to college, get a… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
I'm limited as a human being, and when you look at certain situations, it's very bleak. Or at least it appears that… — Pauletta Pearson Washington Copy Share Image
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
People want fun and escapism at the moment. Look at the success of Guardians of the Galaxy. I think Nolan kick-started a… — Matthew Vaughn Copy Share Image
I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You can find the richness in any moment, even the most seemingly bleak. To try to do a movie about that was… — Billy Crudup Copy Share Image
“The sea delivered the message that life was nothing more than meaningless mechanics and cold tidal forces, a bleak message of hopelessness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen 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
My prayer today is to not be negative about anything for one day. It is so easy to be disappointed, critical, cynical.… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“He grew restless with Connemara and its bleak possibilities, its blasted bogscape and lunar rockiness, the grey desolation of everything around him,… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It had all begun on the elevated. There was a particular little sea of roots he had grown into the habit of… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
I think a lot of bands would just make a dark, bleak album, which is why we wanted to do the opposite.… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Still must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak and cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers),… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“The world, however bleak I have found it in the last few weeks, must nonetheless be formed of goodness, if but a… — Stephanie Barron 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
“By ten o'clock, the Sunday-night blues set in. The bleak wasteland of an entire week of stupefyingly boring school stretched ahead of… — J.M. Steele Copy Share Image
I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker… — Amy Seimetz Copy Share Image
He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as… — Jack London Copy Share Image
And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are… — Ed Mayo Copy Share Image
Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of… — Charles R. Swindoll 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
The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
“the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
I think we tend to write more uplifting and vibrant music when we're in bleak and lonely surroundings. I think it's because… — Ed MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the… — Dan Gilroy 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
I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image