Pathetic Quotations

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I'm just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn't part of the plan, initially. I'd be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.

I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.

There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'

Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.

We stopped being able to talk to each other. And we found ourselves onstage all playing a different song at the same time. It was pretty pathetic and felt like it was just symbolic of where we were at. We ended up getting into this terrible violent fight and our tour manager had to put us in different corners just to break it up.

We respect the views of the former general, appreciate his sense of nationalism and share his concerns about the plight of our people. But this quixotic declaration is pathetic and unfortunate.

We have played pathetic ball since Opening Day.

American television really is pathetic.

obsessed government officials who spent millions in tax dollars in a pathetic attempt to control the election for governor.

If we continue with the pathetic proposal for $20 million a year, it would take well over a century, well over 100 years, to get rivers back to where they are safe to swim in.

Basically we think it's a pathetic piece of legislation. This does nothing to curb the 'anything goes' culture in Washington.

I hated that loss Colfax. It was the most devastating loss I've ever experienced - which might make me look a little pathetic - but it was good for the team. It made us tougher.

I feel really sorry for the players at this time of year. I find it quite pathetic to be truthful.

I can't even think of a good- enough, pathetic analogy for shooting a bison resting on the ground.

For months we have seen the government trying to cling to a pathetic pretense of a cease-fire. Surely Peter Hain can recognize that when live bullets are fired at the police and army, that constitutes a breach of even his definition of a cease-fire.

For months we have seen the government trying to cling to a pathetic pretence of a ceasefire,

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

I think it's f-----g pathetic to be belittling him,

I think it's pretty pathetic they want to drag my father into this. I've moved on. I mean that's just sad that someone would try and do that to sell a book.

I think it's pretty pathetic that they tried to drag my father into it.

I think it's pretty pathetic that no one showed up, and that Italy couldn't really put on an event that like maybe Salt Lake City did. But that's not why we are here to race.

I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country.

I was thinking on the plane yesterday how pathetic it is to be dreading the read-through after 25 films and 18 years of acting. I mean real terror.

I thought he was brilliant. Whenever I see that picture, I don't see my son. I see that pathetic character.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

Visible good easily becomes trite; visually there is very little material left-you know, you make a sunbeam pass over a character or a situation and it becomes far too pathetic and banal.

We were a garden club without a garden. How pathetic is that?

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

We of course remember the days when the leader of the house was the bovver boy, stand over man of Australian politics, now he's just pathetic and this is just a pathetic resolution moved to try and guillotine this debate through this House from a minister who only yesterday ... was complaining about debate being guillotined.

The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.

We always said it would be pathetic to be good at the music and bad at the business.

To suggest that I have in some way discredited Dr. King is simply the knee-jerk, apoplectic hysteria of those who find fault with anyone not espousing their leftist mantra of self-segregation and special rights. As a result, much of what Dr. King stood for has been undermined by their lies and pathetic misrepresentations.

EPA actions up to now have reduced the risk from only two out of the 125 riskiest pesticide uses on food, and have actually allowed more risk in seven cases. This is a pathetic record.

It was a pathetic effort on our part. We played about as bad as we could and still got a split.

Prudential upgraded the semiconductors and that got the sector going. This was the revenge of the nerds. The most beat up, pathetic stocks had one of their up days.

Our defense is just pathetic right now. At this level, there is no excuses for what we have witnessed and what we are witnessing. That is a simple part of the game and it has nothing to do with inexperience. It is a focus thing and a concentration thing.

You're telling me I have a gift for the pathetic. I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

This government's performance on climate change, in spite of all the grand speeches, is becoming ever more disappointing. It is incredible and pathetic that the chancellor can leave fuel duty unchanged at a time when the cost of using public transport is going up.

This book is enough to make a stone weep and if anyone should read it they would think the writer was indeed in pathetic straits.

At least we were trying in the third, which is more than I can say for the first two periods. At least we started trying. It was a pretty pathetic effort by our group.

A boring, pathetic game like we played doesn't attract fans of any kind.

It wasn't that we wanted to bring them the things because they were pathetic and couldn't do anything for themselves. It was because when we were there they were dancing for us, and the children just seemed so alive and happy ... the whole thing isn't a sympathy thing.

It was really a pathetic year. Some of the things I did some of the crashes I was in I didn't need to be in. I forced the issue.

It's absolutely pathetic that we haven't treated our citizens better just in getting to these facilities.

It's a pathetic stunt. Leicester can't and won't beat us on the pitch. They are just clutching at straws.

It's a pretty pathetic addiction. I'd sit there actually concerned, really hoping that Jorge Sosa got the win or Dave Roberts got a stolen base. No rational person behaves in this manner.

It's pretty pathetic to have the vice president of the United States down here mouthing off,

It's pretty pathetic to drag my father into it. Give me a break.

It's pathetic that they're still shuttling cash to this dictatorship after it has violated every commitment it made to the United States.

It's pathetic. It's pathetic that someone in a time especially right after Katrina, seeing people suffer, would take advantage of the system.

Suppan brings consistency, but he needs to start hitting home runs, ... It's exciting. It's always exciting to see pitchers hit home runs. He probably never thought he would be the one to do it. It was a pathetic home run trot, but it was fun to watch.

It's definitely frustrating. We're not hitting the ball at all. It's tough to be as pathetic offensively as we've been.

No message, it was pathetic effort by all five of them. We played three very good quarters. It was unfortunate that it was marred by an irresponsible third quarter.

In many ways, Tucker Carlson's a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck or the late Andrew Breitbart, to name two of his contemporaries with a much larger following.

If the pathetic level of funding in the proposed budget continues, restoration of the dead zone in the Sound will continue for a quarter century and raw sewage will flow into the Connecticut River and Sound for at least another hundred years. This is totally unacceptable to Save the Sound, and I venture to say, every member of the Coalition.

I look at people who aren't doing something with their lives and I have pity on them. It's pathetic if you're not doing something with your life. I want people to do stuff with their lives.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

I am ok. He is just such an awful awful pathetic person. I just (expletive) hate him, his I am the king attitude, his value system (or lack thereof), his anger, his meanness. I JUST HATE HIM!!!!

Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

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

All they have left is to smear the speaker because they can't solve Medicare, they can't solve welfare and they can't balance the budget. This is the last pathetic thing they've got,

Tranq'd by your own gun,"Lev says."How pathetic.

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

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

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

The design industry is really pathetic.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

What a pathetic turn, ... Somebody ought to take that dress away from her. It's got Ronald McDonald's name on it.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

A poet over 30 is pathetic

Everything human is pathetic