“ Don't tell me that you're pitiful because you're homeless. You just need some help; ain't nothing pitiful about that. ”
- Alice Harris- Copy
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“ You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone. ”
- Martin Sheen- Copy
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“ There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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“ You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on — into the dustbin of history! ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
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“ These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ”
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca- Copy
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“ Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory. ”
- Justin Kaplan- Copy
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“ Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. "Sing," says he, "and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.". ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ And lips say "God be pitiful," who never said, "God be praised.". ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success. ”
- Molly Ringwald- Copy
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“ Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish — even I if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It was no wonder the fishers had not understood me… ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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