Famous Quotes & Sayings

Petra Haden

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

Matt Lucas

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

Matt Ridley

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

Lee H. Hamilton

depression that we haven't done better, that we didn't learn more than we did from 9/11.

Depression has many forms. You might get up in the morning and just as soon not face the day. You feel overwhelmed with it all and are continually feeling low.

Depression does not discriminate. It doesn't matter whether you are successful, it doesn't matter how intelligent you are, how rich you are, it can hit you at any time in your life.

Douglas Brinkley

Depressed and in physical pain from hip-replacement surgery, he started talking openly about suicide, polishing his .45-calibre pistol, his weapon of choice.

Our sense is that expectations are now so depressed that we are likely to see more upgrades than downgrades from this level. It has not been such good value since 2003.

On top of everything, there are lots of rumors on Argentina, which depress the market a lot.

Despite the increase, there is nothing to suggest that the group will be able to increase its growth prospects, which should depress returns.

There's been no shortage of negative news lately, and this event is likely to further depress the markets,

A lot of people will try to understand depression but you find it takes time, it is very difficult.

John Miller

They (patients participating in support groups) are more likely to be complying with their medications, less likely to be depressed and actually in some studies people have quicker rehabilitation,

It's very depressing to not know anything about yourself.

Ring Lardner

There isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter.

There is nothing you can say to describe this. It's terrible. This is the lowest point of my career. It was just really depressing out there.

The removal of hedging for '06 should reveal (the company's) true earnings power as hedges have depressed earnings over the past three years.

Steve Carell

You're telling me I have a gift for the pathetic. I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

Dan Hill

You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

Sallust

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

Rusty Schweickart

This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has had a very depressing effect on many people.... I don't for a moment think that there's any concept which anyone's working with now which will be followed as a straightforward scenario. But the idea embodied in concepts such as space colonization or space industrialization, or availability of nonterrestrial resources, is fundamental, and it will change the way in which people look at the future.

Sally Field

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.

Susan Polis Schutz

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.

Stuart Symington

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

Stevie Smith

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

Steve Jobs

It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought

Mother Teresa

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

Molly Ringwald

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

Paula Poundstone

What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed.

Peter Kreeft

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

Pythagoras

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Pythagoras

No man is free who cannot control himself.