Dismal Quotes

Who so beset him round / With dismal stories, / Do but themselves confound; / His strength the more is. - John Bunyan

When you combine the fact that year two of a president's term in office is the weakest of the four, with two seasonally weak quarters, you get a result that's pretty dismal. - Sam Stovall

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science. - Thomas Carlyle

We've gone down there and failed dismally last year in a pretty hostile environment. So with that year's experience you'd like to think we go down there pretty hungry and we can win some football and make it a good, hard match. - Dean Laidley

We're almost in a win-win situation here, I think, because you're out of that dismal earnings season for the most part with all of those pre-announcements. If we can just stop hearing negative news from corporate America, at least until the Fed meeting, I think we'll be okay. - Linda Jay

We saw this as a way to use a little humor to bring further attention to a serious issue, and that is so far the dismal efforts of Congress to clean up its act. - Mike Casey

We just hoped for a better-than-dismal turnout. - Ralph Mervine

We expect the fourth quarter to be pretty dismal, and the first six months of 2002 could be unexciting. Then it picks up from there. On a comparative basis, it'll look nicer than this year. I think we'll be up high single to a low double digits. - Liz Miller

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. - George W. Bush