Dismal Quotes

99 Dismal quotes by 88 unique authors

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, that’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
No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could… — Paul Nurse
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science… — Julian Baggini
Iran has a dismal record on human rights. — Howard Berman
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as… — Shawn Colvin
....chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases, survival can be… — John Diamond
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation. — Edgar Degas
Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of… — Theodore Roosevelt
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each… — Edgar Allan Poe
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. — George Packer

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