#wretched

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again. ↗

— James Buchan

#bear #before #boom #bust #circles

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are! ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#because #how #just #just because #know

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#happy #i #king #me #perhaps

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ↗

— John McCain

#could #cruel #description #fool #fraud

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. ↗

— Thomas More

#brain #driven #gave #glimpse #heaven

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#desperately #how #just #makes #me

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#city #condition #does #growth #increase

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. ↗

— John Major

#argument #biggest #biggest mistake #both #both sides

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#day #discomfort #forced #habitually #hope

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish