Dismal Quotes

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God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he… — Stephen Charnock
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as… — Henry David Thoreau
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his… — Oliver Goldsmith
If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would… — Albert Bandura
The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred… — Alan Cohen
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey. — Karl Philipp Moritz
At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones. — Unknown Author
New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox… — David Lange
Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time,… — Joel Spolsky
One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I… — Brad Alan Lewis
After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions… — Victor Davis Hanson
Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was… — Edwin Meese
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie… — Victor Hugo
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have… — Ludwig von Mises
The BEST training program in the entire world will be a DISMAL FAILURE if people fail to hold up their end of the deal. The… — Mark Rippetoe
The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire… — John Evelyn
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they… — Charles Dickens
We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up… — George W. Bush
Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, thatâ€™s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it… — Geoffrey Wood
The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it… — Charles Dickens

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