Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecelia Ahern

Holly smiled weakly. Gerry would know exactly how she was feeling, he would know exactly what to say and he would know exactly what to do. He would give her one of his famous hugs and all her problems would melt away. She grabbed a pillow from her bed and hugged it tight. She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. And the depressing thing was that she couldn't imagine ever embracing anyone the same way again.

Carrie Fisher

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Anthony Storr

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

Bill Hicks

That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama.

We expect a big drop in September: Katrina has depressed sentiment and pushed up jobless claims.

He's a little depressed and upset. It just stinks. He made a mistake.

Pete Fountain

I think maybe it was just depression about all the stuff that happened. All the things we lost. All the disruption. And then you look around and see all the stuff still messed up. It just sort of grinds you down.

It's depressing because we know some of the people. Whenever we start thinking about it, we cry.

That may help with depression or symptoms of depression.

The scans showed there is no significant depression and the pleasing news is Benji does not have to undergo surgery.

Irving Fisher

For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright.

Irving Fisher

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

Irving Fisher

The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.

Irving Fisher

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.

If sharply higher interest rates, and a plunging Nasdaq make people more optimistic, we are at a loss to know what it will take to depress confidence,

If people are depressed and scared, as they have been in Japan, there are limits to monetary policy. It comes down to people making personal decisions.

If you had an overall depressed market, you could not have that kind of phenomenon.

I hope to get justice because this whole episode has made me a depression patient.

I'm surprised, I'm disappointed and maybe even a little depressed that we did not do better four years after 9/11. It says we're still very vulnerable.

In general, our stance is that the greatest threat to a depressed person is to receive no treatment at all.

I'm trying not to let a depressing thought get into my head.

Joanne Woodward

I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

It's really been a very depressing thing. I've been working on this since November, trying to help this guy, trying to get him going in the right direction, but he wouldn't take any advice, he wouldn't take any help we just did what we had to do.

It's real depressing knowing your loved one's out there. Nobody knows anything, nobody saw anything, no information, no leads.

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,

John Updike

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.

C&W is not desperate to raise funds so I don't think they will want to unload PCCW at such a depressed price,

Glenn Gould

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.

Eugene Ionesco

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Ernest Hemingway

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Etta James

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

Ernest Holmes

Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.