Deprimate Quotes & Sayings

To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue. — Ernst Mayr

The quiet people just do their work. — Joyce Carol Oates

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.' — James Scott Bell

Poets shouldn't vote. — Cormac McCarthy

If you're a progressive, if you're driving a Prius, or you're shopping green or you're looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian. — Mark Bittman

I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me. — Jesse Helms

And when Siddhartha was listening attentively to this river, this song of a thousand voices, when he neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om: the perfection. — Hermann Hesse

I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain. — King Hussein I

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing — Damon Knight

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. — Herodotus

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. — Gene Tunney