Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Korten

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

David Graeber

We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.

Byron Katie

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

Edward Said

Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.

ASAP Rocky

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Edward Abbey

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Don Stark

We have seen an incredible outpouring of energy, support and passion towards the goal of keeping (the temple) alive and vital. When an obstacle presents itself, how do you respond to it- as a tragedy or an opportunity?

Martin Brodeur

We have no excuse to not get back to where we were at or even better. I think the competition will be greater from now on because of the stretch drive. Some teams are going to try to secure playoff spots. Some teams are going to try to get back in the mix. Some teams, like us, are trying to stay alive and move up with the big guys.

Jane Mullan

We want everything to be hands-on. The curriculum should be alive for the students, instead of flat ... They are challenged, but they're able to express themselves and think outside of the box and really understand topics in depth.

Alan King

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

Charlotte Bronte

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Dan Kelly

We've staved it off for 15 years, but we have to pay the piper -- the time is here. To use money just to keep a dwindling school alive is not wise. I understand that it's difficult, but looking at it overall, it's not the board's fault enrollment in particular schools is going down, and it's not the board's fault that families have to move to Tracy to buy a house.

Peg Bracken

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

Larry Wachtel

The popular indexes have managed to reach 4-year highs, while small and midsize indexes flirt with all-time highs. The lack of sustainability is likely due to the senior citizen status of the bull market, now in its 41st month. The restless rotation is keeping hope alive with money shifting from energy stocks to home building to technology to financials.

Larry Wachtel

The popular indexes have managed to reach 4 1/2-year highs, while small and midsize indexes flirt with all-time highs. The lack of sustainability is likely due to the senior citizen status of the bull market, now in its 41st month. The restless rotation is keeping hope alive with money shifting from energy stocks to home building to technology to financials.

Ai Weiwei

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

Unknown

May you get all your wishes but one, So you always have something to strive for.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Edmund Spenser

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

Carrie Brownstein

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

Carl Rogers

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Abraham Lincoln

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Alexander Crummell

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.