Pitiful Quotations

Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them,

I saw this as a bridge between my pitiful lifestyle and a better life, ... I still thought our house would appreciate and somehow we'd eventually retire as millionaires.

Our measure of core sales, which excludes autos, gas and food, rose a pitiful 0.1 percent, the worst performance since April and impossible to square with Mr. Greenspan's assertion last week that the economy is regaining traction,

I think she loves the Phantom. But more like a father. In the end she says, 'you pitiful creature of the dark.' She cares for him, but she doesn't want to live her life in a dungeon.

It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.

We have an excellent case without the witness, but the witnesses will help you. We have narrowed it down to three, a pitiful three, and I should think you would want to proceed with that minimum testimony.

We fouled a lot tonight, we had a night where we were just flat not into it right from the beginning of the game. And really a pretty pitiful effort.

We're letting this kid get his mental house in order, ... He's really mentally distraught. It's pitiful to see.

We really didn't hear too much from him. At first, that worried me. I thought he might have died. Every once in a while, we'd hear kind of a cry. Like a pitiful cry.

The defense responded well from a pitiful performance against Lee last week,

What programs there are, are pitiful when one compares the scale of this epidemic to the resources committed by the federal government.

We were pitiful (in the first half). We turned the ball over too many times, and we were inconsistent on defense.

When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisitesto be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurancethere are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

A severed hand Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken.

It was pretty shocking. Somewhere between pitiful and pantomime.

Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for certainty sure can make things unsteady.

In Russia they actually go out and patrol, but to collect their money. In Kazakhstan it is so pitiful that the officials, the game wardens, do not even bother to go out.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

How pitiful I was before I started. Just because you can do 10 sit-ups doesn't mean you're all that, so I learned how bad I was and how far I have come.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''

This needed to be done. It was just a pitiful sight to see the people coming in from New Orleans so dejected with their pets.

When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

You can't be pitiful AND powerful.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both