Pathetic Quotes - Page 8

• Yes, I sounded like a pathetic weenie. I prefer to think of it as showing my softer side.

  James Patterson

  Thinking, Sides

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• To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.

  Andy Murray

  Thinking, Fruit, Bananas

  "Murray describes fight to cope with trauma of Dunblane school killings" by Martin Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. June 04, 2008.

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• I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.

  Barry Goldwater

  Betrayal, War, Hypocrisy

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• When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

  Wayne Rooney

  Taken, Police, Balls

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• What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.

  Louise Mensch

  Believe, People, Challenges

  "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life, or mend the shattered concord between man and nature. It should strive to be more than a sop to the pathetic twinge of human self-esteem. Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

  Ray Brassier

  Self Esteem, Philosophy, Opportunity

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• Well I'm a 5 year old at heart; I still think that there is a monster under my bed - and I'm not joking. It's pathetic, it's really not cute.

  Eva Mendes

  Cute, Heart, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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• We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.

  Dave Matthews

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The fabrics I've used in my work are satin and sateen. Sateen is very glossy and far from luxurious. Bright solid colors with too much sheen seem gaudy, pathetic and nostalgia-inducing. Such fabrics are reminiscent of the power of chaos in a shaman's space: overabundant offerings of food on alters, kitschy decorations, provocative shades, vigorous dancing, plaintive singing, absurd fits of crying and laughing, and self-abandonment.

  Hyon Gyon

  Dancing, Laughing, Singing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've lived a long time, and a lot of things shut down. Painting is one of them. It never occurred to me that I wanted to go back. The world, in a pathetic way, doesn't want me to be an artist; they want me to be in the kitchen, which I just can't do.

  Michael Chow

  Artist, Long, Kitchen

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

  Peter Steele

  Song, Believe, Psychosis

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• Criticism is hard for me but people find hard to believe because they think I'm very tough, very strident, that I tell everybody where to get off, and how. But I've actually got a really thin skin. I don't know. It's quite pathetic. So, yeah, it's hard for me to take criticism. But I also kind of have this sense of humor on overdrive, so I don't take any of it seriously. So that sort of saves me, the fact that I think it's just all kind of funny.

  Ani DiFranco

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Ego, Trying, Naked

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• Americans give you the violence, Europeans give you the sex. I think people have been saying that since the 70s. And I think it's kind of pathetic that Americans are still stuck - on the shock value of violence, when sex is such a natural thing for everybody.

  Sasha Grey

  Thinking, Giving, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Korea, Cuba, Lasts

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• Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.

  Rose Macaulay

  Betrayal, Behavior, Standards

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic.

  John Lennox

  Trying, Sound, Looks

  Source: www.asenseofawe.net

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• The drinking was getting way out of control. I just didn't recognize myself anymore. I didn't know what I was doing or where I was. I always had to have some drinks with me in my bag. Just waking up shaking and then having Bloody Marys on your own, first thing in the morning-I started to feel really pathetic about it. So I was like, "I can't live like this." It was just this really awful feeling of becoming a totally different person and not being able to control it at all. Then I tried to not drink, but that didn't work. So I figured I should just go to rehab.

  Lara Stone

  Drinking, Feelings, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.

  Keith Richards

  Boys, Blue, Guitar

  "I loved rock'n'roll - but then we found the blues" by Keith Richards, www.theguardian.com. May 01, 2009.

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• It's just human nature - isn't it? - to be more attracted to something that's taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, 'Don't do drugs,' you wanna do drugs. That's why I've always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the fucking things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it, y'know?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Kings, People, Drug

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Ayres, January 25, 2010.

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• Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.

  Rosario Ferre

  Death, Mother, Kings

  Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

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• that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!

  Vita Sackville-West

  Sex, Memories, Loneliness

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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• I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

  Milla Jovovich

  School, Horizon, Being Popular

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• I started watching some 'Doctor Who' recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime - I'm pathetic.

  Miranda Hart

  Doctors, Watches, Scared

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• I am a pathetic and gushing Nick Hornby fan, and I wanted to be in High Fidelity, and I wanted to be in About A Boy, and those two directors - one who's a dear friend, and one who has never cast me in anything, despite my pleading... So there was another Nick Hornby script going around being cast by a friend of mine, and she said, "There's a very small role in it, but you'd be right for it." I was like "I don't care how small, I'm going to be in this Nick Hornby film."

  Olivia Williams

  Boys, Care, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

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