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.

P. J. O'Rourke

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

Avi Arad

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Mary Oliver

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

Pierre Corneille

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

Rowland Hill

He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.

Philip Verleger

It could be written so nobody ever has to pay a penny, ... The devil is in the details.

English 14th Century Proverbs

He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.

Tryon Edwards

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Robert Capa

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.

Tori Amos

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Werner Herzog

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

William Peter Blatty

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

Sam Keller

Pat Tillman is a legend -- he'll never go away. He was a Sun Devil and so are we. That makes it special.

Terry Robinson

It got down to about 26 degrees here around 5:45 in the morning. I know there's some damage.

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

William Shatner

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

Robert Ringer

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.

Sarah McLachlan

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

William Blackstone

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

Sarah Dessen

Its 75 Degrees! In December!

Washington Allston

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

Willie Anderson

It's a new feeling for us. I always thought it would be freezing and zero degrees right now. That's how I always pictured the week of a playoff game in Cincinnati.