Bleak Quotes - Page 9

• The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

  Laurence Overmire

  People, World, Might

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• I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Father, Mistake

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

  John Cusack

  Mother, Texas, Play

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• Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.

  Enele Sopoaga

  Demise, Levels, Temperature

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.

  PJ Harvey

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Optimistic

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Beautiful, Girl, Wall

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Home, Dark

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

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• When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

  Pittacus Lore

  Hope, Thinking, Track

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• So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Sex, Pleasure Love

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