Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Sitting down in the evenings became a kind of torture, a bleak realization of her talents laid out against the bright shimmering… — Cathy Holton 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
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“The lobby was at once attractive and bleak, a place meant to impress without creating the desire to linger.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
“What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when...” — Anne Corlett Copy Share Image
You can make bleak things funny but if you're glib about it, it doesn't work. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
…Hold on a little longer—even when things look bleak. Know and remember this: the Lord loves you. He remembers you. And He… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“So here we are. The two of us. Me and this geezer I gotta kill. Sittin here in a car showroom office,… — Ian Ayris Copy Share Image
If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Why are we so desperate to escape the material world? Is it really so bleak? Or could it be, rather, that we… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
