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Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down. -- Thom Mayne
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. -- Robert Evans
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless. -- Paul Harris
When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control. -- William Glasser
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. -- Adam Ferguson
I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me. -- Steve Carell
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly. -- Zane Grey
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me. -- Simon Schama
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs. -- Dana Rohrabacher
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. -- William Ellery Channing
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. -- Bruno Dumont
I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me. -- David Alan Grier
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more. -- Vinny Guadagnino
I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me. -- John Updike
Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors. -- Alex Berenson
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you. -- Rush Limbaugh
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. -- James Surowiecki
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad. -- Orhan Pamuk
To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices. -- Mark Helprin
Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are? -- Heath Ledger
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much -- Oscar Wilde
It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science. -- William Blake
Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself. -- David R. Brower
You have an amazing ability to depress me sometimes, you know that?" "I try my best. -- Derek Landy
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress. -- Seneca the Younger
i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.. -- Miranda July
I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them. -- Mick Jagger
Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna. -- Radhanath Swami
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. -- T. S. Eliot
To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone. -- Albert Einstein
I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you. -- John Currin
That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama. -- Bill Hicks
Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency. -- Jamie Dimon
Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you. -- Ankur Basu Roy
Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy! -- Israelmore Ayivor
There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't. -- E. F. Benson
Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not. -- Ann Demeulemeester
The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices. -- David I. Rozenberg
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end. -- Ovid
I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow. -- Dustin Hoffman
What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed. -- Paula Poundstone
We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment. -- Barbara Brennan
The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that? -- David Lloyd-Jones
Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people. -- William Barclay
When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. -- Sun Tzu
Harry, I've left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry--" "They won't," said Harry. "That you're safe--" "That'll just depress them." "--and you'll see them next summer." "Do I have to? -- J. K. Rowling
Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it. -- J. D. Salinger
Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it. -- John Currin
TODAY, I can choose what affects me, to not be afraid, to not let this break-up depress me, to look at mistakes as learning experiences, to be happy, to feel loved, TODAY I can choose.... -- Doobie Shemer
He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan. -- Alain de Botton
You will ever depress the devil if you always love those who spit hatred into your face. The devil loves vengeance and anything contrary to this is an agenda to bring down his temporal kingdom! -- Israelmore Ayivor

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