Quotes about woefully (16 Quotes)



    Parents and teachers too are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the 'right answer' more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within ones self cannot be learned from another.

    I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

    Unless you present a viable alternative, then I don't care what's going on in Madison, you're going to have a problem. If they put all their eggs in this one basket, they're going to come up woefully short.



    We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

    The question remains, does this impact our youth Because of my exposure to this problem, my unedited affirmative answer would not be suitable for printing. To me, it seems woefully obvious. These problems did not exist - to this extent - until it became a part of popular culture.


    the Republicans control the Congress. The Republicans have an obligation, their responsibility in that position of controlling the majority to bring out and produce a budget. They haven't done it. They are woefully late.

    Clearly, small and mid-sized business owners are saying that the small, incremental changes that have been made thus far in tax legislation are woefully inadequate to satisfy their needs. They want a creative tax alternative that represents out-of-the-box thinking, something that will produce true change.


    The list... was woefully incomplete. They are running a serious risk right now if they put those names up and they don't know the answer to that question of who was absent from the party.

    I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000 walking around smiling, trying to earn enough to eat, while neurotically doing these little self-proofs in our head about how much better we are than these other slobs, while simultaneously, in another part of our brain, secretly feeling woefully inadequate to these smarter, more beautiful people.






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