Zitat des Tages über Erbärmlich / Pitiful:
I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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.
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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.
I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.
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.
Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in public.