Dismal Quotes
From a rainy day at Westminster Abbey to a dismal economy.
These quotes use 'dismal' for everything from literal gray weather on a visit to Westminster Abbey to a struggling economy and the frustration it breeds. One also points to a regulatory report explaining why dismal taxi service persisted for decades. Explore more in Age quotes.
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in...
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You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became America's sweetheart on the 'Today' show. But her ratings have been dismal - she comes...
Age Quotes
All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.
Mr. Trump has tapped into the frustrations of many Americans who feel the effects of a dismal economy and believe the political system is rigged and owned by the establishment.
In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments.
I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite.
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
Always Quotes
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal record. The attack they have launched against Mitt Romney shows just how worried they are about facing him...
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
Attempting Quotes
Britain has been responsible for the undermining of democracy, turning a blind eye to abuses by its allies, using extraordinary rendition to get around the rule of law, passing over the denial of individual liberties to dissidents, and the evasion...
A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for...
I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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Between weather, economics, and public services, these lines show how flexible the word 'dismal' can be. Continue with Always quotes for more on everyday frustration.
