Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Mvula

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Edmund Spenser

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Douglas Coupland

When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.

Anselm Kiefer

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

Amy Carmichael

If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Clara Zetkin

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.

David Foster Wallace

There's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a few other writers at the same time, it's rather wearing to be around. And it does - there is a kind of hypervigilance about it. Unfortunately it's got disadvantages. If you turn that hypervigilance on yourself and, for instance, whether or not you have a pimple on the end of your nose, it can get really depressing.

David Zucker

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

Paul Gascoigne

And that way, I don't blame other people. I'm the one that has to keep off the drink. I'm taking responsibility for my life on everything.

Don Larsen

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

Jacque Jones

This one's tough. I take a lot of blame.

Jacque Jones

This one's tough, and I take a lot of blame. I feel like I should have come through in those situations.

Mike Cooke

We wanted him to stay but he wasn't keen to take less money and, to be honest, I don't really blame him considering all the travelling he has had to do.

Bruce Bochy

This upset a lot of our players. And I don't blame them.

Carly Ormerod

We can only blame this one on ourselves. We gave them that game at the end.

Andy Smyth

We just felt that we were way too up and down. We spread the blame equally. Everybody did something bad.

Dan Reeves

You have to make some tough decisions. We've been struggling for five weeks, and I just feel like we need to make a change. I told Doug I feel badly. Everybody on offense should, because he's the one who gets the blame for it.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Norm MacDonald

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

Jeremy Renner

When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Voltaire

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Myles Munroe

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

John Gay

Praising all alike, is praising none.