Pathetic Quotes - Page 16

• The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.

  Craig Stadler

  Children, Golf, Games

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• I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using their privileges of free speech in the morally superior West versus pathetic wimps in repressive countries we don't like.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Mean, Progress

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just ... do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints and things like that. I kind of like the idea of nailing the thing down and not really showing too much about it. There's just so much you can take for collage nowadays.

  Peter Beard

  Writing, Kind, Footprint

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Character, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• My friend jewelry designer Courtney Crangi has been obsessed with Star Wars all her life and has seen the movies 150 times. When we first started talking about it, I was amazed that her knowledge made mine - which was even then pretty impressive - seem pathetic. And I think there are a couple of reasons for this. One is that the leader of the rebellion is Princess Leia. American theatergoers had never seen a princess like that. She's not a delicate flower, she's not passive, she's often the only one who has a clue.

  Cass Sunstein

  Couple, War, Flower

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I deal with the depraved, the sick, the pathetic, the disturbing and the profoundly depressed. I will try it all on. I will try on what I am and what I never want to be. And everything I wanted to be, but never can be. I can be a supermodel, or your worst nightmare. Off-stage, I just get to leave it, and nobody thinks I'm like that. This is what prevents me from being a psychopath and a sociopath, my time on stage.

  Susan Messing

  Thinking, Sick, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Alec Baldwin has done this great Donald Trump. I wish somebody would hire Leslie Jordan to play Jeff Sessions. The only way is to put the two of them out there. it is the most bizarre, pathetic silliness I can imagine at what should be the most serious deliberations in the American government.

  Barney Frank

  Wish, Done, Serious

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• Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic.

  Randy Alcorn

  Evil, Heaven, Trying

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• One thing is for sure. The Drive-By Media is populated with people who are not just biased and bigoted and prejudicial. It's obvious that they are also the victims of an absolutely pathetic education system.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Victim, Obvious

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's moments that are very personal in The Divorce. There are moments that are sort of unwatchably vulgar or intimate or pathetic. I even had this conversation with my mom. My mom saw the pilot and she was like, "I just thought that some of it seemed nasty." I'm like, "Mom. You're from a whole different generation. And yeah. There's some nastiness that goes on."

  Thomas Haden Church

  Mom, Divorce, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In Dardenne brothers' films is a really small kind of humanity. It's not like the titanic "humanity" of humanism, it's much more gritty and realistic. But again, humanity is what unites all the people I'm talking about, and in such different ways. The humanity is in that moment you glimpse someone and have a completely intimate moment with them, and that intimacy is connected to an extreme pathetic aspect.

  How to Dress Well

  People, Humanity, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Spiritual, Hurt, Giving Up

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• You can get better, or you can get all gooey, and crotchety, old, pathetic, icky, gross. Not me. Not into it.

  Tony Horton

  Get Better, Gross

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• Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.

  James Patterson

  Strong, Teeth, Hot

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito

  Nobuhiro Watsuki

  Men, Alive, Belief

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• What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

  David Foster Wallace

  Cynical, Hips, Sentimental

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1996.

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• There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Growing Up, Thinking, Guy

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.131, Hachette UK

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• Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Atheism, Christianity

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.38, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Sacrifice, Law

  "Facing Death, Christopher Hitchens Affirms Atheism" by Ethan Cole, www.christianpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

  Anne Rice

  Weak

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• A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Weed, Envy, Water

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.64, A&C Black

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• Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.

  T. Casey Brennan

  Compassion, Animal, Pet

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• Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Dark, Doors, America

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• American television really is pathetic.

  Brian Eno

  Television, American Television

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• The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fashion, Passion, Church

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