Grim Quotes

206 quotes by 196 authors

Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't… — Jenna McCarthy
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion,… — Ludwig von Mises
Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never… — Nelson Mandela
Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it… — Joseph Warren
[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first… — Daniel Topolski
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
When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that… — Ron Chernow
When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration… — Anne Lamott
No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are… — Ayn Rand
Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of… — Richard M. Nixon
So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why. — Lindy Boggs
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the… — Edgar Allan Poe
The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to… — Tim Winton
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety… — Martha Graham
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his… — Federico Fellini
I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as… — Jo Brand
Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only… — R. Kent Hughes
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting… — Thomas Carlyle
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off,… — J. B. Priestley
Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the… — Herman Melville

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