Quotes About Dismal

Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio's top cop.

I had two important things before me; the one was the carrying on my Business and Shop; which was considerable, and in which was embark'd all my Effects in the World; and the other was the Preservation of my Life in so dismal a Calamity, as I saw apparently was coming upon the whole City; and which however great it was, my Fears perhaps as well as other Peoples, represented to be much greater than it could be.

Unless things change, the long-term prospects for today's children marrying and having a fruitful, stable life together are growing more dismal with each generation.

Sometimes when light dawns it simply illuminates how dismal circumstances have become.

we get to Preston and find that it's depressing

I find 'EastEnders' so utterly bleak.

The notion of a universe filled with cowards... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become... seems no[t] only unimaginative and temporally myopic, but deeply dismal, as well.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

What's an easier way to say 'bad?' Let's go with 'abysmal.'

It was a rainy Monday afternoon, and nothing about the day so far boded anything but ill for the rest of the working week.

My elder brother wants to build a girls' college in Shahjanpur in U.P. We don't have good education system and the security for girls in school and colleges in our village is dismal. So I am going to fully support my brother in whatever he is doing.

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 in last place every week.

That is Baroja's world: dismal, ironic, the streets of towns where industrial life sits heavy on the neck of a race as little adapted to it as any in Europe.

The mattress on the bunk was two centimeters thick and apparently made out of particleboard and despair

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.

Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.

And what remains for us to do, my friends? When life is such a dismal pit, it must be left behind without delay! My friends, let us all go and drown ourselves! Look out of the window, at the river! It beckons us to come!

My parents were great readers of poetry and had a weakness for the light fantastic.' 'A pleasant change from the heavy dismal we suffer from everywhere today,' commented Winnie.

Looking down from his editorial perch at the Manchester Guardian, he summed up the "dismal Thirties" as "a decade which began with the illusion of progress without tears and ended up in the reality of tears without progress.

Or consider why economics is sometimes called "the dismal science." It's a derogatory description thought up by Thomas Carlyle in the 1800s, coined to draw a contrast with the "gay science" of music and poetry: "Not a 'gay science,' I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.