Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Samuel Johnson

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

William Blake

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Rebecca Solnit

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

Frederick the Great

One should never despair too soon.

Lu Xun

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Luc de Clapiers

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

Greg Rusedski

I thought the first set was really good, especially getting that early break. He's a very deceptive player.

Keith Brooking

He has a lot more power, deceptive power, a lot more than you see on film. He's strong, he has the speed to get outside. I think he got some tough yards inside today. That's for sure.

Gary Ruskin

It's deceptive because people think they're talking to a regular person when they're really talking to a shill, ... That's the whole point, that shills have to disclose that they're shills.

Arthur Conan

There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.

Arthur Doyle

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

John Richter

This was essentially an organization that was willing to be a one-stop-shop for illegal goods. We seized more than $4 million of highly deceptive currency. It's the largest seizure of its kind.

Edmund Mierzwinski

First of all, ... if you just opt out, you're protecting your information from being shared with telemarketers who use deceptive scripts to trick you into ordering junky products. If this decision is upheld, you're also protecting your Social Security number from being shared with information brokers and that might protect you from identity theft and stalking.

Terry Gough

He's not the prototype tailback because he doesn't have quite the field vision or shake to him that the really good tailbacks have. But he has deceptive speed. We ran the legs off him, so he can take a pounding. He's very durable.

Thomas Hood

A hollow voice is all I have / But this I tell you plain, / Marry come up! - you marry, Ma'am, / And I'll come up again.

Richard O'Brien

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

Scott Williams

This is not a hollow gesture. This is an unprecedented release of industry material.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

Dan Hicks

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

Ian Paisley

is a hollow gesture, because we don't want words. We want actions.

Mark Brazil

I feel better than I did when I was walking around Quail Hollow at the Wachovia Championship in May, but I don't think we're out of the woods.