#pathetic

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

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. ↗

— Helen Keller

#pathetic #person #sight #someone #vision

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#element #fall #feel #i #love

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#dependence #happiness #helplessness #love #pathetic

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

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#extreme #get #i #intense #kind

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them. ↗

— Peter King

#finding #how #infiltrate #islam #looking

Is there anything more pathetic than a flower that doesn’t get enough sunlight and dies, because it couldn’t get out of bed until four in the afternoon? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #pathetic #sunlight #funny

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#exactly #forties #i #into #knows

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#beautiful #corners #cow #droop #eyes