Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Domar

Research shows that a woman who has a history of depression is twice as likely to subsequently experience infertility as a woman with no history of depression.

Carrie Fisher

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Anthony Storr

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.

Ralph Downey

It is a recession when your neighbor has lost his job. It is a depression when you have lost yours

Pete Fountain

I think maybe it was just depression about all the stuff that happened. All the things we lost. All the disruption. And then you look around and see all the stuff still messed up. It just sort of grinds you down.

Melinda Eash

It can lead to depression and even suicide.

Andrea Yates

because she was having depression from having kids.

Robbie Berg

If it was to develop into a depression tonight or tomorrow, it could develop into a tropical storm.

Mat Rogers

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.

Bill Shankly

The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!

Carrie Underwood

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

Antonia Fraser

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

Aimee Mann

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

Charles Kingsley

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm...

Charles Dance

I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but skilfully - and Dame Diana Rigg joins us [playing political mastermind the Queen of Thorns] and we have a couple of really good sparring moments.

Blaise Pascal

That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

Blaise Pascal

Opinion is the queen of the world.

Blaise Pascal

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My legs are falling asleep,” I blurted. It wasn’t a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. “I could solve that.” Patch’s hands closed on my hips.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

B. B. King

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

B. F. Skinner

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

C. S. Lewis

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.