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.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

William Shakespeare

It is silliness to live when to live is torment.

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.

Brittany Snow

Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.

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.

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.

Chris Barton

We know what it takes to win. Hopefully we will do the work it takes to get back.

Roger Ashby

We know we have to improve significantly on the Kettering performance. But hopefully that was a one off. It'll be tough up there but by no means impossible.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Amy Hill

We always get a lot of last-minute registrations. Hopefully we are on target to reach our goal.

Benjamin Franklin

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

Demetri Martin

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

Matt Doherty

We've got be smarter and hopefully we'll be smarter when we get into league play.

Mike Farrell

We've got a solid six or seven kids with no seniors and only one junior. Our kids were pleased to get that first win and we're hopeful of winning some more.

Steve Tilson

We've got another two games, hopefully we can get that win.

Sean O'Faolain

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

Bill Vaughan

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

Colin Mochrie

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

David Eddings

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Eugene Ionesco

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

Nate Silver

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

Mark Twain

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Mark Twain

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.