![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.](/assets/img/quote-photos/had-winston-churchill-been-a-stable-and-equable-man-he-could-never-have-inspir.jpg)
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depression found hard people public stature suffering talk therefore
He was suffering from some depression and, as a person of his stature and a public figure, he found it really hard to talk about it to other people and therefore exacerbated the problem. Mat Rogers
depression thinking littles
I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. Rube Goldberg
depression people together
At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together. Robert Carlyle
depression daughter struggle
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep. Zora Neale Hurston
depression rain shopping
The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain. Johnny Vegas
depression moving orange-juice
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity. Oliver Sacks
depression mental-illness inexplicable
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity. Octave Mirbeau
depression suicide inevitable-death
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind? Emilie Autumn
depression fighting vitality
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. Emile M. Cioran
men giving perfect
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life. Plato
men
I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be. Jane Fonda
men money
I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted. Raquel Cassidy
men heaven have-faith
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward. William Wilberforce
men joy soul
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
men sides harvard
There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
men progress neighbor
All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
men lines straight-lines
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God Antoni Gaudi
men temper ifs
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.
odds tough vegas
It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.
odds perspective people
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers. Charles Bukowski
odds pay-the-price people
Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor Robert Kiyosaki
odds age spirit
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time! Anne Rice
odds giving facts
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you. Robert Greene
odds government ego
As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion. Richard Linklater
odds people everyday
I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life. Suze Orman
odds minorities gains
Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds. Swami Vivekananda
odds giving levels
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance. Ronald Fisher