#pathetic

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#am #direction #evolve #feel #i

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

— Andy Murray

#fruit #honest #i #i think #pathetic

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#childhood #course #during #eaten #goes

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#bush #corporations #george #george w #sympathetic

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #been #expressed #idea #merely

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#any #display #generous #growing #how

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

#me #pains #pathetic #physically #rendered

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all. ↗

— Lara St. John

#all things #being #bucket #during #hit

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. ↗

— George Santayana

#better #children #exertions #expected #happier

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth. ↗

— George Saunders

#developing #earth #here #only #our