Quotes About Dismay

She stopped, picked up the paper, stood there to read the headlines. But nothing seemed changed, or at least the paper made the current crises sound like all the old ones; the ferment of politics, the clash of minor foreign wars, the dismay over local crime seemed of a pattern she'd always known.

Life is a hideous thing.

Dodd's main reason for wanting to see Dieckhoff was to express his dismay at having been made to seem naive by Goebbels's Jews-as-syphilis speech after all he had done to quiet Jewish protests in America.

But to go to school on a summer morn O, it drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

So I think that having Donald Trump as president of our country, and also his impact around the world, would have left my father in dismay.

Yogi Raman detected his dismay. "Never overlook the power of simplicity," Julian was told.

The people had registered their dismay with a long litany of unpopular Federalist actions: the Jay Treaty, the Alien and Sedition Acts, the truculent policy toward France, the vast army being formed under Hamilton and the taxes levied to support it. The 1800 elections revealed, for the first time, the powerful centrist pull of American politics—the electorate's tendency to rein in anything perceived as extreme.

Oh, I beg your pardon!" she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the gold-fish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.

those words dampen our spirits

A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.

Of Books and Scribes there are no end: This Plague--and who can doubt it? Dismays me so, I've sadly penned Another book about it.

These days there's no time to be bored, happiness has vanished somewhere in the world, and all that's left is dismay.

Judy felt dismayed. A half hour? She couldn't learn much about the gym in half an hour.

At once he was horrified too; saw that the idea was monstrous; abused

God rest you merry, gentlemen,Let nothing you dismay;Remember Christ our Savior,Was born on Christmas Day.

I still remember my dismay in the summer of 2007 when - for the first time in the history of planet Earth - America's share of auto production dropped below 50 percent.

As much as I would enjoy such rumors spreading around about my . . . er . . . virility, ye probably, definitely, shouldn't say it to the other ladies," he decided. Evina nodded, but said, "Too late." "What?" he asked, aghast. Evina scowled at his dismay. "Well, what the devil do ye think we women talk about when ye men aren't around? The weather?

He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.

Her expression seemed to keep changing, from grief and fear and dismay to cold indifference. I wondered what caused the changes, or if my mind had conspired with the lights to half imagine them.

There was also, as it turned out, the dismay of my parents to be reckoned with: their tolerance about caterpillars and beetles and other non-human life forms did not quite extend to artists.

This, said a voice from the depths of the sofa, is too much.

Good God! It is horrible! He is no better than a mummy!

You say you're going like a house afire, Mendl? Why don't you jump into the flames! I wouldn't come see you in Boiberik if you were on your deathbed!