Dispirited Quotes

#1. The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. The few questions I had asked had been futile and I was suddenly dispirited, for it had occurred to me that had Holmes been present, he would have probably have solved the entire mystery by now.

Anthony Horowitz

#3. With reference to the younger generation ... "If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."

Anna Quindlen

#4. A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

Abigail Adams

#5. You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.

Carl F. H. Henry

#6. Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

Frances Hesselbein

#7. Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

James Cameron

#8. A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell is the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection..

Paula Wall

#9. True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice .

Sathya Sai Baba

#10. The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

George Will

#11. What else happened?' she asked, not because she was particularly interested, but because one must talk to one's mother when she came to visit one, however tired and dispirited one felt.

Monica Dickens

#12. The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

Jill Abramson

#13. Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

Eric Alterman

#14. But I also felt gloomy, dispirited, aware that if I stayed my life would be too deeply touched by these people. I would, in the end, become one of them.

Anonymous

#15. I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited
it will be spirited
because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica
conservative Republican ... Hello? Easy there.

John McCain

#16. Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.

Jerry Bridges

#17. Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Antonio Porchia

#18. To live abundantly, you have to race toward the future with arms and heart wide open. You have to risk everything and let the universe take care of the details

Elaine Hussey

#19. These are the days of miracle and wonder.

Paul Simon

#20. He ate in your car? No shit?

Sarah Dessen

#21. An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating.

Nick Harkaway

#22. I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.

Daryl Hall

#23. Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing, sometimes even a zest, for life.

Carl Sagan

#24. Injuries to the body, especially the face, are not treated simply as problems of form. We should rather speak of themas belonging in the province of mental hygiene. Otherwise, who whould willingly devote his efforts to cosmetic work?

Kobo Abe

#25. Here's what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they're going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.

Michael Thomas Ford

#26. Go to him, Sweet Pea.

Kristen Ashley

#27. Rather, they prove that students can make something out of their education.

Umberto Eco

#28. I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

Genevieve Gorder

#29. I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.

Ben Savage