#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

Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic. ↗

— David Pratt

#being #complacent #fool #stop

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. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#been #diana #freelance #front #funeral

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#despicable #devotes #hours #i #know

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. ↗

— George P. Baker

#develops #drama #play #requires #self

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

#me #pains #pathetic #physically #rendered

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#actually #assume #audience #because #become

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