Pathetic Quotes - Page 15

• Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Ambition, Talking

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• I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, World, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities.

  Kenny Smith

  Thinking, Years, Intuition

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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 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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• The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

  Diana Nyad

  Inspirational, Body, Spirit

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Self, Perception

  Mark Twain (1929). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.156, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• 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'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so much. What I really miss about the theater is that in the end, it's yours to give. In television and film, it's yours to do and someone else's to take and someone else's to give. As much as I love television - the biggest luxury of all is to know that you have a job to go to - I do miss that connection and having that power over my own performance on stage.

  Julianna Margulies

  Jobs, Reading, Play

  Source: variety.com

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• 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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• The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

  Italo Svevo

  Modern Novel, Illusion, Confession

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• Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

  John Cowper Powys

  Scene, Persons, Disregarded

  "A Glastonbury Romance". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 849, March 6, 1932.

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• I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.

  Mahesh Bhatt

  Believe, Insults You, Effort

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• The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

  Ted Hughes

  Throat, Shocking

  1960 'View of a Pig'.

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• The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.

  Camille Paglia

  Buddhism, Followers, Pieces

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.211, Vintage

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• Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

  Nora Ephron

  Guy, Needs, Trouble

  "Fictional character: Becky". "Sleepless in Seattle", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors - that the master is lesser than the slave.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Men, Years, Self

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 21: "The Prejudice Lingers On", 1971.

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• Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

  Rubin Carter

  Men, Dignity, Clown

  Rubin Carter (2011). “The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472”, p.142, Chicago Review Press

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