Despondent Def Quotes

#1. My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

Nellie McKay

#2. Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.

Edmund Phelps

#3. Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

Alan Titchmarsh

#5. Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

F.R. Leavis

#6. Truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is.

C.S. Lewis