James L. Petigru
James L. Petigru

It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.

Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Swaggart

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Swaggart

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig

What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.

Sean O'Faolain
Sean O'Faolain

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

Stella Young
Stella Young

Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.

Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

Willie Wells
Willie Wells

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.