When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science. — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
“Economics is not a gay science. It is a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“A dismal omen: ...this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as… — Kathleen Maher Copy Share Image
We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
“All the passengers are very dismal, and seem to have tremendous secrets weighing on their minds. There is no conversation, no laughter,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What, in nature," Kit asked, "is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?" "The Dismals," Giles answered promptly. "A… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“We are indeed miserable, my friends, but we don’t have to be dismal about it.” — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us.” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.” — Anita Valle Copy Share Image
I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place. — Burn Gorman Copy Share Image
Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is… — Sanjay Dutt Copy Share Image
As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal… — Jeb Bradley Copy Share Image
persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
