Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Jack

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

Abraham Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Theodore Roosevelt

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Allen Abney

The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places.

John Adams

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

C. S. Lewis

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Blaise Pascal

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Alain de Botton

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Dale Neaman

You can tell a difference in them from the very first month. Once they have been given permission to be a woman, the depression lifts.

Alexander Lowen

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

Andrew Solomon

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

Stephen Fry

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

Stefan Zweig

I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.

Susanna Kaysen

Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It is better to lose than never to have had.

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.