Quotes About Doldrums

#1. And it made me hurt inside of my bones with sadness. Because in a life that is long and well lived there are sorrows and darkest doldrums that cannot be understood by those who live day to day like it could be any other.

Brian McGreevy

#2. Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.

Michael Basman

#3. Begin, then, where you are, not where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story - if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell

Florence Falk

#4. The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.

Kay Kenyon

#5. I often wonder if my imagination is one of God's choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

Robert Heilbroner

#7. If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

Mark Glamack

#8. Oh, Neverfell, you're just not made for undercover work. You can't lie, my dear, and I can. Leave Madame Appeline and the Doldrums to me. Stay here and keep your head down.

Frances Hardinge

#9. Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

Bernard Williams

#10. A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Phyllis McGinley

#11. You have to be the right type for calm waters. For some, dead calm is inner peace, for others it's the doldrums.

Daniel Glattauer

#12. Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Hansen

#13. Doldrums, n.
The proper verb for depression is sink.

David Levithan

#14. When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.

Jochen Zeitz

#15. As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

John Podhoretz

#16. I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.

Matt Bomer

#17. February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Hunter S. Thompson

#18. You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

Norton Juster

#19. And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I'm going to go hide in the garage.'

Anne Lamott

#20. I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

Barbara Windsor

#21. Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

Jane Ridley

#22. Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was no other solace to be had.

Lisa S. Lewis

#23. Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

Victoria Moran

#24. If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

Kyo Maclear

#25. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Richard P. Feynman

#26. I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.

John Edwards

#27. Dear God, please let this very hot ass badassfinally take advantage of me.Love, Charlie

Jaymin Eve

#28. I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

Trevor Phillips

#29. If it's got a beard or a battery, you're going to have trouble with it.

Connie Brockway

#30. The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.

Graham Greene

#31. That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

Susanna Hoffs

#32. I have never treasured any woman the way I treasure you now, this moment. You are all I think of, all I want.

Carolly Erickson

#33. In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.

Ben Lerner

#34. I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

James Thurber

#35. Courage refuses frontiers!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#36. I was Cery's best pupil, but only in certain subjects. Oral sex and improvised weaponry, for example, though rarely in conjunction.

Kit Rocha

#37. Barrett strokes one of the chair's slick, bile-green arms. "You can get attached to just about anything, can't you?" he says.

Michael Cunningham

#38. There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.

Robert Robinson

#39. In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

George Orwell

#40. Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Julia Cameron