Desponder Quotes

#1. I notice a whiff of Swift in some of my notes. I too am a desponder in my nature, an uneasy, peevish, and suspicious man, although I have my moments of volatility and fou rire.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

Caitlyn Jenner

#3. I also know how ruthless and reckless young women can be when their ovaries overheat. My darling little Tehuti's Gonads had caught fire at the first sight of him. I could think of no feasible way to quench the flames.

Wilbur Smith

#4. To do anything in the Lord's name means to do it for his purposes. When we pray in Jesus' name, we are petitioning God to bring glory to Jesus and we are asking for his will to be done in everything so that he will be honored above all.

Bryan Chapell

#5. Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

P.C. Cast

#6. You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all huge processed drum sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.

Andy Partridge

#7. Hating the cool kids takes an awful lot of energy, and I'd given up on it a long time ago.

John Green

#8. I suppose, in some sense, wills are like maps: they are the imprint we leave, the places our affections have been entrenched; the work we have done; the money we have burrowed away; the furrows and the paths that lead back to spaces we have gone, and marked, and loved.

Lauren Oliver

#9. [I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

Charles Dickens

#10. If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Carol Vorderman