Hapless Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and…
— James Wolfensohn
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There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a…
— Geoff Nicholson
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There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann…
— Matthew Engel
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Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
— Greg Bear
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. . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a long dark brown…
— James McCudden
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Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm…
— Samuel Johnson
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Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
— Homer
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Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned…
— Larry Atchley Jr.
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Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth…
— Kenny Smith
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In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the…
— Shaffi Mather
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Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.
— Robert Burns
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Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless…
— William Cowper
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John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.
— Hartley Coleridge
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The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
— Carroll O'Connor
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My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of…
— William Blake
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When is the last time you were a tourist?†she asked archly. He just looked at her. Charles, she had to agree, was not tourist…
— Patricia Briggs
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Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and…
— Jane Austen
Who Wrote These Hapless Quotes
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