Desponding Quotes

#1. It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the pleasure and the business of my life; but faith was weak, and passion was too strong.

Anne Bronte

#2. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#4. Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs,
Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.

Jonathan Swift

#5. Desponding Phyllis was endu'd
With ev'ry Talent of a Prude,
She trembled when a Man drew near;
Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear:
If o'er against her you were plac'd
She durst not look above your Waist

Jonathan Swift

#6. Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author.

George Eliot

#7. I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

Jim Ramstad

#8. When we face our fear of death and slow down our busy lives, we come to realize our relationships are precious, a part of life's foundation. Knowing this fact helps us to understand that death's true purpose is to teach us how to live.

Molly Friedenfeld

#9. It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

Kobe Bryant

#10. The distinction of one person's character can be illustrated by
this word : attitude

Ency Bearis

#11. Damn, if only you moved that fast for my cookies, I'd be a happy guy.

J. Lynn

#12. We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds.

Stanislaw Pigon

#13. It is an unwavering rule for those in power that, when it comes to heads, it is best to cut them off before they start thinking, afterwards, it might be too late.

Jose Saramago

#14. Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

Gene Weingarten

#15. When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

Sheldon Harnick

#16. Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

George Carlin

#17. It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.

David Byrne

#18. Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana