Pathetic Quotes - Page 10

• I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.

  Scott Eastwood

  Done, Stuff, Internet

  "Scott Eastwood Explains What Drew Him To Snowden" by Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 15, 2016.

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• I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

  Ruth Wilson

  Thinking, Firsts, Useless

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• I'm sick of the pussies on the right, if I can use that word, they're pathetic. The poll-tested, Republican strategist driven candidate whose job is to try and not get into a battle with the mainstream media and be liked by Katie Couric is a threat to America. It's a clear and present danger to a country that's in steep peril.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Country, Jobs, Media

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Life in America is nothing but struggle, you gotta continue to try to overcome. Keep organizing, Obama said, keep organizing, grab a clipboard, get your signatures and start protesting, run for office yourself, but the shtruggle, the shtruggle is what defines us and we must continue with the shtruggle. Just pathetic, folks, the whole thing is pathetic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Struggle, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Hillary Clinton is a world class liar. Just look at her pathetic email server statements, or her phony landing - or her phony landing in Bosnia, where she said she was under attack, and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers. A total and self-serving lie. Brian Williams' career was destroyed for saying less.

  Donald Trump

  Girl, Liars, Lying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One day Barack Obama targets one group or business, the next day he targets another. Never, ever does he take responsibility for any of this mayhem. Oh, no! He's just an innocent bystander. He's a spectator. After running up debt heretofore unseen in this country, he tells us we have to get control of our spending. Now, he is desperately trying to save his pathetic and destructive presidency, and to get reelected he does not give a damn who he hurts in the process or what he damages.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Country, Hurt

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

  Alex Scally

  Hands, Years, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Zoos, Sadness, Oakland

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Real, Struggle

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• I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.

  Pedro Meyer

  Choices, Luck, Would Be

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• Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.

  James Gustave Speth

  Helping, Consumerism, Wells

  "Book World: 'The Bridge at the Edge of the World'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2008.

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• A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization of her place in the world as a woman. Or--what is even more hopeless and pathetic--it's an admission that she has given up, that she is beaten, and refuses longer to stand up to the world.

  Hortense Odlum

  Fashion, Attitude, Clothes

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• We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some obscure web site or newsgroup or derive an iota of cheer by getting rid of pocketful of change.

  John Allen Paulos

  Cheer, Science, Obscure

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• What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Success, Hope, Sleep

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• Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Makeup, Age, Faces

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• The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it's kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the reality should be.

  Carly Simon

  Jobs, Reality, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say "pathetisch" in German it's just a description, not necessarily negative. That says a lot already.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Negative, Description, Pathos

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe, and this is something I also learned from Alice Munro, that there's a moment where the personal becomes totally universal. When you see that person in their pathetic moment, that's the moment where the completely unifying sympathy with that person is possible - where you're no longer a person here and they're someone over there, and you can really feel like one, you can really feel like a human being. Or more like, you can really feel like flesh and blood, because I feel like that moment is the same thing with animals.

  How to Dress Well

  Believe, Animal, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

  Deborah Kerr

  Beautiful, Eye, Cows

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

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• In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Order, Holocaust

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• They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic Using nursery terms, at least not poetic.

  Kool Keith

  Baby, Rap, Simple

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• I have a lot of friends who are getting married. I try to avoid talking to them about their sex lives now 'cause it's so depressing. One guy told me it had been six months since he had gotten to second base with his wife. Yeah, I don't know which one was more pathetic: that he used the phrase 'second base' or that he hadn't been there in six months?

  Ted Alexandro

  Depressing, Sex, Talking

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• Tonight I am ugly. I have lost all faith in my ability to attract males, and in the female animal that is a rather pathetic malady . . . I don't care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. What is it that makes one attract others?

  Sylvia Plath

  Animal, Frustration, Feelings

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.16, Anchor

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• There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

  Edward Abbey

  Artist, Decline, Trajectory

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.

  Roger Ebert

  Hero, Needs, Unworthy

  Roger Ebert @ebertchicago, twitter.com. August 30, 2012.

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