Despaired Men Quotes & Sayings

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning. — Charlie Munger

And, surprisingly, it was Lymond's voice which said sharply, 'You cannot debar a human being from love! — Dorothy Dunnett

I have a really powerful urge to see things work. — Bill Budge

To live in Portsmouth without possessing a family portrait done by Copley is like living in Boston without having an ancestor in the old Granary Burying-Ground. You can exist, but you cannot be said to flourish. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man — Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest. — Anne Rice

Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts. — Deepak Chopra

The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea, liquid silver. — Laura Treacy Bentley

I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.. — Lisa Kleypas

The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers. — Mike Epps

I'm sorry, but I stand by my decision. I am now a member of the elite club of people that have fought a professional team mascot. You sir, are not in that club. — Tucker Max

An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it. — Sterling Lord

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with. — Alan Davies

I suddenly started feeling that the magic of psychedelics wasn't in some other world or some other place, but that they put you in communication with other people. Most of the really heavy things that happened to me were when I was stoned with other people, - when it get all honest, when it got really high and all golden and beautiful and bright and white-colored under the power of truth, when you looked at them and saw true compassion, and you knew they really did love you, and you knew you really did love them. — Stephen Gaskin

But that spring, the complex and tenuous political arrangements that had made their positions possible were undone by the racism of a new regime. "I have plans that are all ruined, utterly ruined," despaired Census clerk William Jennifer.1 The opportunities and stability he and so many others had come to expect from government employment would all but vanish. This is a book about how that world of possibility, work, politics, and mobility was snuffed out. It is a story of how "good government" became the special preserve of white men. — Eric S. Yellin