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• It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

  George Santayana

  Honor, Atheism, Deities

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.54, Рипол Классик

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• I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

  Drew Barrymore

  Love, Valentines Day, Romance

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• The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stars, Taken, Sunset

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Childhood, Wish

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

  Edward Gibbon

  Events, Details, Littles

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• It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Nice, Feels Right, Right Now

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

  Steve Carell

  Depressing, Ideas, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Pain, Fashion Inspirational

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Needs, Looks

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• I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Mother, Wife, Trying

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• The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Character, Boxing

  "Desperate Tyson Prepares For His Real Last Stand" by Wallace Matthews, www.nysun.com. June 23, 2004.

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• All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

  John Ruskin

  Fake People, Judging, Feelings

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

  Harvey Weinstein

  America, Gun Control, United States

  "Aurora shootings prompt Harvey Weinstein to call for rethink on film violence" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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• Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Looks, Ugly, Actresses

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• We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

  Zakk Wylde

  Beer, Men, Rocks

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• Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

  Betty Dodson

  Men, Dinner, Breasts

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• Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.

  Carrie Fisher

  Age, Sound, Stills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My sex life has gone from bad to pathetic. My G spot stands for godforsaken.

  Joan Rivers

  Sex, Gone, Spots

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• If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Country, Party, Gun

  "Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2012.

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• My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.

  Lucy Griffiths

  Girly, Weak, Biggest Fear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Graffiti, Recognition, Ability

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• People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

  Walter Annenberg

  Art, Thinking, People

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• It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many other people started pretending they were me! One of them actually got married while pretending he was me! My face became publicly recognizable soon after I decided to have a few photographs of me available in public to prevent these sorts of identity thefts. It is really pathetic, if you think of it. Filmmakers and filmmaking is so popular in Iran because all other forms of expression have been denied to people.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Thinking, Expression, Iran

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• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Rome, Sublime, Shifting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Mind, World

  Ted Nugent (2000). “God, guns, and rock 'n' roll”, Regnery Press

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