(41 quotes found)
“I am sworn brother, sweet,To grim Necessity, and he and IWill keep a league till death.”
William Shakespeare
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
Camille Paglia
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.”
Christopher Morley
“The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.”
Roselle Mercier Montgomery
“but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.”
Robert Alton Harris
“It's, it's really been grim. I mean they realize that this is probably the biggest political crisis they've faced in the President's tenure. I think what they're trying to create now after two weeks is a level of engagement and urgency that the President created after three days, just three days after the 9/11 attacks. It's a major challenge.”
David Gregory
“This is certainly as grim as it gets. What makes this unusual is that we're in the middle of this devastating hurricane. So, one of our big concerns is trying to remove the bus to get the freeway clear and get traffic flowing.”
Don Peritz
“It's a sort of grim realization that they are raking in profits from the misfortune of others. They didn't seem to really mean it. It was more a way to deal with the unusual hand they'd been dealt amid the chaos of postwar Iraq.”
Correspondent Charles Levinson
“The judicial authorities are imposing a grim ordeal on three journalists under pressure from the governor of an unstable state. The Nigerian press is still in the grip of harsh legislation, a brutal police force and authoritarian governors. On this New Year's Eve, we call for their release and we reiterate our commitment to the independent press and, in particular, to the three Port Harcourt prisoners who are exposed to dangerous challenges.”
Reporters Without Borders
“We were getting a little nervous in February. It would have been grim if the storms didn't come back this year. But we've had a great winter.”
Dave Powell
