Doom And Gloom Quotes

• God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Hatred, Secret

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• My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Hopeful, Despair

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.85, Modern Library

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• Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

  Walter E. Williams

  Class, Political, Use

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.91, Hoover Press

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• Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh at the stupidity of evil and hate, and summon the brilliance of praise and create. . . Life is crazily in love with us-wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it.

  Rob Brezsny

  Hate, Evil, Giving

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• I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Differences, Denial

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Life, Science, Understanding

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• Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

  Daryn Kagan

  Talking, Fit, Persons

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• In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

  Robert Reich

  May, Irrational, Exuberance

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• You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, Internet, Nonsense

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• I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

  Depressing, Giving, Youth

  "Engaging Youth: Tools for Change". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  People, Perspective, Different

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• For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Marketing, Fans

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• The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Peaceful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

  Kathleen Parker

  Money, Light, Cities

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• I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

  Shirley Henderson

  Laughing, Scottish, Humour

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.

  Sarah Beeny

  Country, Home, People

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• Man United, for all the doom and gloom, they're still the best club on the planet, they've got the best supporters and the best manager... United will always be United. To me, they are still the best and whatever disappointments they're having at the moment, don't worry, they'll bounce back. They always do.

  Roy Keane

  Disappointment, Worry, Clubs

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• You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Want, Shut Up, Doom

  "Breaking Dawn". Book by Stephenie Meyer, August 2, 2008.

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• Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

  Ian Holm

  War, Eye, Light

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• People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Writing, Artist, People

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