'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny. William Archer More William Archer Quotes 1
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury. Roger Bannister British Athlete More Roger Bannister Quotes 0
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. Simon Callow English Actor More Simon Callow Quotes 0
Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days. Larry David American Actor More Larry David Quotes 0
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord. Michael Novak American Philosopher More Michael Novak Quotes 0
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. Robert Cormier American Author More Robert Cormier Quotes 0
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. Jacques Yves Cousteau French Explorer More Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes 0
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. Khalil Gibran Poet More Khalil Gibran Quotes 0
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. Allen Klein American Businessman More Allen Klein Quotes 0
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not. Sean Lennon American Musician More Sean Lennon Quotes 0
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak. Walter Jon Williams American Writer More Walter Jon Williams Quotes 0
He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982. Mark E. Smith English Musician More Mark E. Smith Quotes 0
I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there. Danielle Steel American Novelist More Danielle Steel Quotes 0
Bleak House is a great baggy thing, the plot doesn't work in all sorts of parts, so you've got to tinker with it. Usually I tell myself, find the spine of the story and stick to that and chuck out anything not related to the spine of the story, but that doesn't work with Dickens. You lose the flavor of him if you don't include all those other extra comic characters that he couldn't stop himself from creating. The plot bulges out. It's like horrible boils or something, but in a nice way. Andrew Davies More Andrew Davies Quotes 0
We have never given up, no matter how bleak things looked. These guys are fighters; they could be losing 24-2, and they'd still never quit. Andrew Hopman More Andrew Hopman Quotes 0
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else. Anna Ford More Anna Ford Quotes 0
[Although the Indian government is working toward better laws, the future seems bleak. According to Duggal,] In the future, India will become a den for cyber criminals. ... Dependence on the internet and mobile phones has increased so much that such crimes are likely to increase in number and intensity. Ankit Fadia More Ankit Fadia Quotes 0
M&A in insurance was bleak this quarter. Equity market jitters combined with accounting and reserve issues will likely keep M&A sluggish for the next couple of quarters. Bjorn Turnquist More Bjorn Turnquist Quotes 0
Winters are long and bleak. We lack sunshine and daylight. Cabin fever was a true disease then and it still gets you. Bill Cooper More Bill Cooper Quotes 0
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these! Charles Dickens English More Charles Dickens Quotes 0
The future of devices that don't have some kind of connectivity built into them is pretty bleak. It's going to be the case that almost anything you can think of is going to connect to other things, most often wirelessly. Charles Golvin More Charles Golvin Quotes 0
highlight astonishing stories of renewal, ingenuity and potential heard through unfiltered African voices. These stories counterbalance the bleak headlines of civil war, disease, poverty and extinction. Chris Johns More Chris Johns Quotes 0
At the time, things looked pretty bleak. Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince More Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince Quotes 0
The prescription drug field for women looks pretty bleak. David Ferguson More David Ferguson Quotes 0
You could not give me toys in those bleak days; So when my playmates proudly boasted theirs, You caught me to the shelter of your arms, And taught me how to laugh away my tears. DuBose Heyward More DuBose Heyward Quotes 0