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  • Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see againâ?¦ I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O'Neill were laughing. -- Woody Allen
  • The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid. -- Tommy Armour
  • The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. -- David Geffen
  • We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things. -- Jay Nixon
  • Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively. -- Monica Crowley
  • Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay? -- Jay Carney
  • The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier. -- Beau Willimon
  • Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out. -- David Talbot
  • Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility. -- Brendan I. Koerner
  • A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. -- Michelle Malkin
  • Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason. -- Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
  • Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal? -- Alan Moore
  • Life is abysmal hilarious if you have the eyes to see. -- Stefan Emunds
  • Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation. -- Ingrid Newkirk
  • President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal. -- Julianne Malveaux
  • The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible. -- Mariano Rajoy
  • The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. -- Carlos Fuentes
  • Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? -- Robert Solow
  • It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal. -- Chad Harbach
  • Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. -- Sri Chinmoy
  • The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre. -- Hartley Coleridge
  • I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom. -- Lillian Russell
  • The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles. -- Jacob G. Hornberger
  • I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman. -- John Kennedy Toole
  • The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. -- Francis Thompson
  • ... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical. -- Andrew Bernstein
  • I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal. -- James Agee
  • The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you. -- Wendy Beckett
  • I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been rescued, can help return people to a sense of being needed and useful. -- Ken Wahl
  • Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. -- Fulton J. Sheen
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