Anguished Quotes

What was not on the national radar screen has exploded onto television screens... We know now that the faces of poverty are black and brown, painful and anguished. Let this nation rise up to eliminate poverty and the faces of poverty vanish from the American scene. - Joseph Lowery

What is outrageous about this case, if this man is telling the truth: This man is a getaway driver for murder. We execute people in this state for that. [But he] hasn't been charged with anything. It shows how desperate the government is in this case. ... This case has languished for 10 years. ... This is their best shot. - John Fitzgibbons

We definitely expected more consolidation in the industry, although it is always hard to imagine a deal of this magnitude. Mirage's management has underperformed and the stock has languished recently, making it a great opportunity for MGM Grand. But this will have to be a friendly deal if it has a shot of working. - Jason Ader

This idea of a wooden golf tee sort of languished until you had Dr. William Lowell experimenting in his garage in the 1920s. - Rand Jerris

There were a lot of anguished cries from people in North Carolina after Floyd that they weren't in flood plains and yet they were flooded. - Mark Stevens

There really has not been justification for the dollar rally to happen exclusively versus the euro, especially because euro zone data has been kind of positive and Japanese data has kind of languished in a funk. - Lara Rhame

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. - Samuel Beckett

The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. - Bible

The last studio film I made was Fire with Fire for Universal in 1984. After that, I had to fight for the independent movies and TV projects I got. I never received mainstream offers any more. I sort of languished on the detour route. It makes you feel so inadequate. You see yourself as a loser. - Virginia Madsen

The issue has been on the government's back burner and languished because of lack of attention... In my judgement, there's a lack of concern for the urgency of this. - Jim Abbott